Laboratory diagnosis of Chagas' heart disease
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Mailing Address: Marcos Antonio Almeida Santos • Avenida Gonçalo Prado Rollemberg, 211, sala 210, São José. Postal Code 49010‐410, Aracaju, SE – Brazil. E‐mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Manuscript received October 09, 2014; revised manuscript November 13, 2014; accepted November 13, 2014.
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عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31801995000200006