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Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 31-34 , January 2006

Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection and Ischemic Heart Disease in Hemodialysis Patients

M. Wszola
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
- Address reprint requests to Michal Wszola, Warsaw Medical University, Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, ul. Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland
A. Kwiatkowski
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
R. Nosek
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
E. Podsiadly
- Department of Microbiology, National Hygiene Institute, Warsaw, Poland
J. Meszaros
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
R. Danielewicz
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
W. Lisik
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
K. Ostrowski
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
A. Chmura
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
L. Adadyński
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
L. Paczek
- Department of Immunology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
M. Durlik
- Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
S. Tylewska-Wierzbanowska
- Department of Microbiology, National Hygiene Institute, Warsaw, Poland
W. Rowiński
- Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

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