Why is coeliac disease endemic in the people of the Sahara?

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9179, 1999, Pages 647-648

  Catassi, Carlo ^a   Rätsch, Ilse Maria ^a   Gandolfi, Lenora ^b   Pratesi, Riccardo ^b   Fabiani, Elisabetta ^a   El Asmar, Ramzi ^a   Frijia, Maria ^b   Bearzi, Italo ^a   Vizzoni, Luciano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOMYSIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344604532     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02609-4     Document Type: Article

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