Lymphocyte to monocyte ratio as a screening tool for influenza

PLoS Currents

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2010, Pages

  Merekoulias, George ^a   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^a   Belezos, Theodore ^b   Panagiotopoulou, Eugenia ^a   Jelastopulu, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ED Olympion Hospital   (Greece)

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EID: 80054769687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.RRN1154     Document Type: Article

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