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Acute hepatitis C virus infection related to capillary blood glucose meter

Faisal Inayat and Aitzaz BinSultan Rai
Saudi Medical Journal January 2016, 37 (1) 93-95; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.1.13143
Faisal Inayat
From the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine (Inayat), Jinnah Hospital, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, and the Department of Medicine (Inayat), New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA, and the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging (Rai), Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Aitzaz BinSultan Rai
From the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine (Inayat), Jinnah Hospital, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, and the Department of Medicine (Inayat), New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA, and the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging (Rai), Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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