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A retrospective study of hepatitis C virus carriers in a local endemic town in Japan

✍ Scribed by Showgo Ohkoshi; Hironobu Tawaraya; Kenji Kuwana; Takeshi Harada; Masashi Watanabe; Shoichi Higuchi; Hideo Kojima; Tomoteru Kamimura; Hitoshi Asakura

Book ID
112684088
Publisher
Springer US
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
684 KB
Volume
40
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-2116

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