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Research Article

Polymyositis Associated with Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection

Masato Maeda, Akihiko Maeda, Hiroshi Wakiguchi, Nobuyuki Murakami, Tetsutaro Sata, Taisuke Okada, Takanobu Kurashige Microbiology and Tumourbiology Center (MTC), Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 212-214 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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