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Equipment| Volume 7, ISSUE 6, P414-415, December 1992

Rice-based oral rehydration fluid in the treatment of infant diarrhea

  • Regina M. Cusson
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    Address reprint requests to Regina M. Cusson, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, 655 W. Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.
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    Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MDUSA
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