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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease /

Until recently not at all well understood, sickle cell disease afflicts a very specific portion of the population, namely persons of African descent and, to a lesser degree, those from the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean area (some in the affected groups carry the disease without suffering...

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Autor principal: Bloom, Miriam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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