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Bernstein, L.E., van Calcar, S. (2022). Nutrition Management of Galactosemia. In: Bernstein, L.E., Rohr, F., van Calcar, S. (eds) Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94510-7_24

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