Ongoing rubella outbreak among adolescents in Salaj,
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D Janta ([email protected])1,2, A Stanescu1, E Lupulescu3, G Molnar4, A Pistol1 1. National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. National Institute of Research and Development for Microbiology and Immunology ‘Cantacuzino’ – Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Bucharest, Romania 4. Ministry of Health, Bucharest, Romania
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تاریخ انتشار 2012