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Is Gastrointestinal Endoscopy a Risk Factor for Whipple's Disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence F. Muscarella
Lawrence F. Muscarella*
Affiliation:
Custom Ultrasonics, Inc. Ivyland, PA
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , June 2004 , pp. 453 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

References

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