Focus: Chagas disease

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-15

  Morel, Carlos M ^a   Lazdins, Janis ^a  

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ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2142826522     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro735     Document Type: Article

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