Reply to Van Howe

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 833-834

  Auvert, Bertran ^a,c   Lissouba, Pascale ^b   Sobngwi Tambekou, Joelle ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMCISION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

EID: 70349304208     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605021     Document Type: Letter

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