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Whipple’s disease in a father-son pair

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  1. Medicina I, Dipartimento di Medicine e Specialità Mediche, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Policlinico, Via del Pozzo 71, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Maurizio Ponz de Leon, Athos Borghi, Francesca Ferrara & Luca Roncucci

  2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Miranda Contri

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de Leon, M.P., Borghi, A., Ferrara, F. et al. Whipple’s disease in a father-son pair. Int Emergency Med 1, 254–256 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02934754

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