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. 2010 Mar 1;101(2):113–114. doi: 10.1007/BF03404353

A Canada-Brazil Network in the Global Eradication of Smallpox

Steven Palmer 13,, Gilberto Hochman 23
PMCID: PMC6974181  PMID: 20524373

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