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For debate: that Australia should consider changing to the bivalent vaccine

Peter L. Stern
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CR UK Immunology Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, Manchester M20 4BX, UK. Email: pstern@picr.man.ac.uk

Sexual Health 7(3) 238-241 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH09131
Submitted: 1 December 2009  Accepted: 28 January 2010   Published: 19 August 2010


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