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Epidemic Myalgia—Bornholm Disease
confirm this. Attlee et al. suggested that a streptococcus, which they had isolated from the throats of their patients, was responsible, de Rudder in analysing the epidemiological data of poliomyelitis and epidemic myalgia was impressed by the similarity of the two diseases and he suggested that the latter was a variant of poliomyelitis. The disease chiefly affects young people under thirty yea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1938
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4066.1203