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. 1978 Nov;54(637):722–724. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.54.637.722

An outbreak of encephalomyelitis in the Royal Free Hospital Group, London, in 1955

Nigel Dean Compston
PMCID: PMC2425309  PMID: 746018

Abstract

This paper is a précis of the report given by the staff of the Royal Free Hospital (Medical Staff of the Royal Free Hospital, 1957) of an epidemic amongst the staff of the Royal Free Hospital in 1955.

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