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. 2013 Aug 7;56(8):675–677. doi: 10.1007/s11427-013-4525-x

Haunted with and hunting for viruses

George Fu Gao 1,2,3,✉, Ying Wu 2
PMCID: PMC7089303  PMID: 23917837

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George Fu Gao, Email: gaofu@chinacdc.cn.

Ying Wu, Email: wuying@im.ac.cn.

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