Cassava food toxins, konzo disease, and neurodegeneration in sub-Sahara Africans

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Neurology

• Publication date

  2013-03-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182840b81PMID 23460617PMCID PMC3653209
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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