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Original Article

An investigation of the correlation between blood concentration of mizoribine and its efficacy in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis based on indices of drug survival and improvement in DAS28-CRP

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Pages 837-843 | Received 01 Nov 2011, Accepted 01 Feb 2012, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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