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ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 975135, 5 pages
The Prevalence of Human T-Cell lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in Pregnant Women and Their Newborns
1Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 9137119139, Iran
2Women Health Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 9185779613, Iran
3Microbiology and Virology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 9176699199, Iran
4Department of Biostatistics, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Mashhad 9176699199, Iran
Received 27 July 2012; Accepted 30 September 2012
Academic Editors: D. Chen and C. Iavazzo
Copyright © 2012 A. Hamedi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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