Prospective surveillance of hospitalisations associated with varicella-zoster virus infections in children and adolescents.

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Published in Eur J Pediatr on March 04, 2005

Authors

Jan Bonhoeffer1, Gurli Baer, Beda Muehleisen, Christoph Aebi, David Nadal, Urs B Schaad, Ulrich Heininger

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital, P.O. Box, 4005, Basel, Switzerland.

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