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Holladay, S. (2005). Birth Defects, Immune Protection Against. In: Vohr, HW. (eds) Encyclopedic Reference of Immunotoxicology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27806-0_178
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