Marburg Virus in Fruit Bat, Kenya
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Acknowledgments We thank the members of diagnostic section of the Infl uenza Research Group of the Institute for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases for their constant support and assistance in these investigations. We also thank the physicians from the Infectious Disease departments of PitiéSalpêtrière and Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospitals, who were deeply involved in the management of patients infected by pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
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دوره 16 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2010