Infections and kidney diseases: A continuing global challenge

Kidney Diseases in the Developing World and Ethnic Minorities

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-82

  Rodríguez Iturbe, Bernardo ^a   Mezzano, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

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