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Clinical Focus: Diabetes - Review

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors and genital and urinary tract infections in type 2 diabetes

Pages 409-417 | Received 11 Feb 2016, Accepted 15 Mar 2016, Published online: 04 Apr 2016

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