Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in northeast Brazil.

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Published in J Infect Dis on November 01, 1992

Authors

T G Evans1, M J Teixeira, I T McAuliffe, I Vasconcelos, A W Vasconcelos, A de A Sousa, J W Lima, R D Pearson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.

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