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Iron, infection and immune function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Chaim Hershko
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Department of Nutrition, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, PO Box 293, Jerusalem, Israel
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Functional significance of micronutrient undernutrition’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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