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REGIONAL REPORTS
Reports from Taiwan
  1. Tsung-Hsueh Lu
  1. Department of Public Health, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College, 23, Section 1, Taichung Kang Road, Taichung, Taiwan 403 (e-mail: robertlu@ms1.hinet.net)

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.5.1.76-b

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