Are All Diseases Infectious?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 844-851

  Lorber, Bennett ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; REVIEW;

DISEASE; HUMANS; INFECTION;

EID: 0030588647     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-10-199611150-00010     Document Type: Article

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