Escherichia ColiO157:H7, Other Verotoxin-ProducingE coliand the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Childhood
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1180-2332
DOI: 10.1155/1995/803560