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Dysentery in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Zimbabwe: an emerging role for Schistosoma mansoni and Escherichia coli O157?

C. GwavavaDepartment of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, P.O. Box A178, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
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V. N. ChihotaDepartment of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, P.O. Box A178, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
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I. T. GangaidzoDepartment of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, P.O. Box A178, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
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T. GumboDepartment of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, P.O. Box A178, Avondale, Harare, ZimbabweCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 509-513 | Received 03 May 2001, Accepted 04 Jun 2001, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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