A three-year prospective study of streptococcal infections in a population of rural Egyptian school children.

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Published in J Med Microbiol on February 01, 1973

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A el-Kholy, A H Sorour, H B Houser, L W Wannamaker, M Robins, J M Poitras, R M Krause

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