Schizophrenia: The Latex Allergy Hypothesis

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-90

  Foster, Harold D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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