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Rapid-Testing Technology and Systems Improvement for the Elimination of Congenital Syphilis in Haiti: Overcoming the "Technology to Systems Gap". 海地消除先天性梅毒的快速检测技术和系统改进:克服“技术到系统的差距”。

Journal of sexually transmitted diseases Pub Date : 2013-01-01 Epub Date: 2013-12-22 DOI: 10.1155/2013/247901

Linda Severe, Daphne Benoit, Xi K Zhou, Jean W Pape, Rosanna W Peeling, Daniel W Fitzgerald, Kedar S Mate

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