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Serum anti-oxidative reserves during cellulitis: a pilot study

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  1. Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Ioannis Chaniotakis, Georgios Gaitanis & Ioannis D. Bassukas

  2. Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Pavlos S. Charalampidis, Vasiliki Kalfakakou, Ioannis Simos & Aggelos Evangelou

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Chaniotakis, I., Charalampidis, P.S., Gaitanis, G. et al. Serum anti-oxidative reserves during cellulitis: a pilot study. Eur J Dermatol 27, 431–433 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2017.3045

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