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Editor's Corner

Intoxication vs. infection

A decade of studying Burkholderia pseudomallei virulence in a simple infection model

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Pages 471-473 | Received 12 Oct 2012, Accepted 12 Oct 2012, Published online: 01 Oct 2012

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