Legal Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 51-57 , January 2005

Sudden unexpected death of a 17-year-old male infected with the influenza virus

Received 10 June 2004 ,Revised 20 July 2004 ,Accepted 5 August 2004.

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