Infection and Cancer: Revaluation of the Hygiene Hypothesis
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cancer Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1078-0432,1557-3265
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-3661