The protective efficacy of polyvalent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.

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Published in N Engl J Med on November 21, 1991

Authors

E D Shapiro1, A T Berg, R Austrian, D Schroeder, V Parcells, A Margolis, R K Adair, J D Clemens

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06510-8064.

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