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No evidence of a link between multiple sclerosis and the vaccine against the human papillomavirus

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Grants from Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA), the Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance of Regione Lombardia.

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  1. Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University Hospital “Luigi Sacco”, Università di Milano, Via GB Grassi 74, 20157, Milan, Italy

    Paolo Pellegrino, Carla Carnovale, Valentina Perrone, Stefania Antoniazzi, Emilio Clementi & Sonia Radice

  2. E. Medea Scientific Institute, Bosisio Parini, 23842, Lecco, Italy

    Marco Pozzi & Emilio Clementi

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Paolo Pellegrino and Carla Carnovale have contributed equally to the work.

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Pellegrino, P., Carnovale, C., Perrone, V. et al. No evidence of a link between multiple sclerosis and the vaccine against the human papillomavirus. Eur J Epidemiol 28, 705–707 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-013-9830-y

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