Obesity and smoking are factors associated with poor prognosis in patients with bacteraemia
Open Access
- 9 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 7 (1), 13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-13
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