Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 73-76 , May 2003

Hepatitis E and the traveller

Received 7 April 2003 ,Accepted 15 April 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00039-5

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 73-76 , May 2003

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