Cancer Letters
Volume 125, Issue 1 , Pages 9-15 , 13 March 1998

Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer in Croatia

  • Vladimir Babus

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, A. Stampar School of Public Health, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +385 1 276822; fax: +385 1 275415.
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  • Marija Strnad

      Affiliations

    • Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Vladimir Presecki

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, A. Stampar School of Public Health, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Mirjana Katicic

      Affiliations

    • Internal Clinic, Merkur Hospital, Zajceva 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Smilja Kalinic

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, Salata 3b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Melita Balija

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Transfusional Medicine, Petrova 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Received 3 April 1997 ,Revised 16 September 1997 ,Accepted 16 September 1997.

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Cancer Letters
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