Randomized, Controlled Trial of Treatments for Second‐Stage Sleeping Sickness
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Randomized, controlled trial of treatments for second-stage sleeping sickness.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1086/519745