Enteric Amebiasis

Tropical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 967-983

  Petri, William A ^a   Singh, Upinder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-06668-9.50091-0     Document Type: Chapter

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