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Toward safer and more efficient pertussis vaccines

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    Alfred Wegmann & Reinhard Glück

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Wegmann, A., Glück, R. Toward safer and more efficient pertussis vaccines. Eur J Pediatr 155, 71–73 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02075752

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