Melioidosis: The Hazards of Incomplete Peer-review

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2019 Mar 15

PMID 30870410

Citations 2

Authors

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Frances Daily

Sotharith Bory

Gaetan Khim

W Joost Wiersinga

Alfredo G Torres

David A B Dance

Bart J Currie

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