The occurrence of diarrhoeagenic escherichia coli among children under five years of age in Basrah, southern IRAQ

Bahrain Medical Bulletin

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Hasony, Hassan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

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