Published in Vaccine on July 22, 2011
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The interplay of public intervention and private choices in determining the outcome of vaccination programmes. PLoS One (2012) 0.86
A cross-sectional study to estimate high-risk human papillomavirus prevalence and type distribution in Italian women aged 18-26 years. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.85
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