The epidemiology of meningococcal disease in India

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Tropical medicine & international health

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02660.xPMID 21054695
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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