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Local reactions to the second dose of the BNT162 COVID-19 vaccine
Antonella Tammaro1, Ganiyat Adenike Ralitsa Adebanjo1, Francesca Romana Parisella2
1Department of NESMOS Dermatology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Dermatologic Therapy
|May 25, 2021
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