Relation of Chlamydia pneumoniae serology to mortality and incidence of ischaemic heart disease over 13 years in the caerphilly prospective heart disease study.

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Published in BMJ on April 17, 1999

Authors

D P Strachan1, D Carrington, M A Mendall, L Ballam, J Morris, B K Butland, P M Sweetnam, P C Elwood

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE.

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