Botulism as a cause of respiratory failure in injecting drug users
β Scribed by S FitzGerald; R Lyons; J Ryan; W Hall; C Gallagher
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 172
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1863-4362
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