Immunization of patients with sjögren's syndrome with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
✍ Scribed by Dr. Jacob Karsh; Nicholas Pavlidis; Gerald Schiffman; Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 393 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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