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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volume 14, Issue 1, January–February 2016, Pages 58-59
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Letter to the Editor
Post-chikungunya chronic arthralgia: Results from a retrospective follow-up study of 131 cases in Tolima, Colombia

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Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

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