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Auto-immunity in Chagas’ disease: fact or fancy? cause or consequence?

Felipe Kierszenbaum

Department of Microbiology and Public Health Michigan State Üniversity East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86821985000300002


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