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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Ganoderma lucidum

Aleksandra Milosavljevic 1 , Jo Barnes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-8433 1 *
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1 School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: j.barnes@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(3) 290-292 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23105
Published: 22 September 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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