Persistent konzo and cyanogen toxicity from cassava in northern Mozambique
- 12 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Acta Tropica
- Vol. 82 (3) , 357-362
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-706x(02)00042-6
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