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. 1997 Mar;40(3):428–429. doi: 10.1136/gut.40.3.428

'Tropical sprue': some early investigators favoured an infective cause, but was a coccidian protozoan involved?

G C Cook 1
PMCID: PMC1027098  PMID: 9135537

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