African tick bite fever.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)

• Publication date

  2003-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00739-4PMID 12954562
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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