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Intake and status in healthy Havana men, 2 years after the Cuban epidemic neuropathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

C. J. Bates
C. J. Bates
Affiliation:
MRC Human Nutrition ResearchElsie Widdowson LaboratoryFulbourn RoadCambridge CB1 9NLUK
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 85 , Issue 6 , May 2001 , pp. 641 - 642
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2001

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