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North American Liver Fluke (Metorchis conjunctus) in a Canadian Aboriginal Population: A Submerging Human Pathogen?

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  1. S-156 Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, 94305-5107, USA

    Marcel A. Behr (Research Fellow)

  2. McGill University, Canada

    Theresa W. Gyorkos (Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Director)

  3. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, Canada

    Theresa W. Gyorkos (Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Director)

  4. Parasitology Laboratory, McGill University Centre for Tropical Diseases, Canada

    Evelyne Kokoskin (Chief Technologist) & Brian J. Ward (Director)

  5. McGill University Centre for Tropical Diseases, Canada

    J. Dick MacLean (Director)

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Behr, M.A., Gyorkos, T.W., Kokoskin, E. et al. North American Liver Fluke (Metorchis conjunctus) in a Canadian Aboriginal Population: A Submerging Human Pathogen?. Can J Public Health 89, 258–259 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03403931

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