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Pubmed Duplicated Articles

Hi,

I've just downloaded from pubmed all articles inserted in pubmed from 2012/01/01 to 2012/12/31 using pubmed eutils. I saved all this datas in a db, but some articles are duplicated.

No elaboration is done with that articles, so i think that there's something wrong with pubmed eutils. I checked pubmed esearch, but the problem is not there.

The duplicated articles, sometimes have different entrez data, and other times changes also the abstract.

Does anyone know the reason?

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for example these articles are repeated more than two times:

20029604, 20029614

but other articles, like these are repeated only two times:

23249855,23249854,23249853,23249852,23249851

ok, so this is because a version update, in fact it has a PMID version > 1. But I can't understand why other articles are duplicated. I did a new research and i got a different set of duplicated articles ( except for articles with PMID >1)

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