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<journal-id>0120-0011</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de la Facultad de Medicina]]></journal-title>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Reply to the letter to the editor entitled "About the 'critical reflections' on the Municipal Epidemiological Resilience Index"]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Replica a la carta al editor "Sobre las "reflexiones críticas" alÍndice de resiliencia epidemiológica municipal"]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Vega-Romero]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Arbeláez]]></surname>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Díaz]]></surname>
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