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SARS: finding a deadly needle in the haystack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson*
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PEI; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
*
jim2@jimthompson.net

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Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 6 , November 2003 , pp. 392 - 393
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2003

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