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Gastrointestinal bleeding in hookworm infection

Studies with radioactive chromium (Cr51); report of five cases

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  1. From the Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas, Fundación Luis Roche, Banco Municipal de Sangre, and Hospital Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela

    Marcel Roche M.D., Maria Enriqueta Perez-Gimenez M.D., Miguel Layrisse M.D. & Estela Di Prisco M.D.

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This work was supported by a grant from the Creole Petroleum Corporation.

We are indebted to Mrs. Eliodora de Figueroa for her technical help, to Dr. Feliciano Acevedo for the gastrointestinal studies, and to Dr. Henrique Benaim Pinto for permissión to report Case 1.

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Roche, M., Perez-Gimenez, M.E., Layrisse, M. et al. Gastrointestinal bleeding in hookworm infection. Digest Dis Sci 2, 265–277 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02231103

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