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Editorial
. 2004 Sep 18;329(7467):633-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7467.633.

How to deal with influenza?

Editorial

How to deal with influenza?

Tom Jefferson. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Pathogens isolated from 211 of 497 episodes of influenza-like illness in elderly people in Leicestershire (adapted from Nicholson et al1)

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