Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Gastroenterology would like to thank all of the reviewers who contributed their time and efforts to the journal in volume 12 (2012).

Raquel Abalo

Spain

Sohail Muhammad Afzal

France

Kosh Agarwal

UK

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Italy

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Sweden

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South Korea

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Japan

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Oman

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Italy

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UK

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