More Accurate Insight into the Incidence of Human Rabies in Developing Countries through Validated Laboratory Techniques
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1 Institut Pasteur, Dynamics and Host Adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, WHO Collaborative Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France, 2 Molecular Biology Laboratory for Neurological Diseases, Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 3 Neglected Zoonotic Diseases, Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Cluster HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM), WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Virology Unit, Cambodia, 5 Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Virology Unit, Cameroon
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2010