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Logistical feasibility and potential benefits of a population-wide passive immunotherapy program during an influenza
Joseph T Wu1, Cheuk Kwong Lee, Benjamin J Cowling
1Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China.
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
|July 16, 2011
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