The febrile response to mild infections in elderly hospital inpatients.

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  Age and Ageing

• Publication date

  1991-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/AGEING/20.3.193PMID 1853793
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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