Neutrophil counts in persons of African origin.

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Published in Curr Opin Hematol on January 01, 2014

Authors

Christina F Thobakgale1, Thumbi Ndung'u

Author Affiliations

1: aHIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute bKwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa cRagon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA dMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany.

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