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Infectious and Inflammatory Metabolic Encephalopathies

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Rammohan, K.W. (2009). Infectious and Inflammatory Metabolic Encephalopathies. In: McCandless, D. (eds) Metabolic Encephalopathy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79112-8_17

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