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Introducing HPV vaccine in developing countries--key challenges and issues.

Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA.
New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor: 53.3). 06/2007; 356(19):1908-10. DOI:10.1056/NEJMp078053 pp.1908-10
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