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Lessons from Haiti on disaster relief.
Didier Portilla,* Rachel N. Shaffer, Mark D. Okusa, Rajnish Mehrotra, Bruce A. Molitoris, Timothy E. Bunchman, and Tod Ibrahim *Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, DC; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor University of California–Los Angele...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.1521