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Teaching fever aphorisms: Osler revisited

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  1. Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 432, Mineola, NY, 11501, USA

    B. A. Cunha

  2. State University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

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Cunha, B.A. Teaching fever aphorisms: Osler revisited. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 26, 371–373 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-007-0286-4

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