Positive deviance control-case life history: a method to develop grounded hypotheses about successful long-term avoidance of infection.

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Published in BMC Public Health on March 20, 2008

Authors

Samuel R Friedman1, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Milagros Sandoval, Holly Hagan, Don C Des Jarlais

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1: National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, 71 West 23d Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. sam4wp@netscape.net

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