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Letter

Causality between polyhexamethyleneguanidine occurrence in unrecorded alcohol and cholestatic hepatitis outbreak in Russia

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Pages 154-155 | Received 27 Sep 2011, Accepted 04 Oct 2011, Published online: 04 Jan 2012

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