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Prevention of Smallpox by Vaccination and Revaccination
PREVENTION OF SMALLPOX BY VACCINATION AND REVACCINATION Sir,?In reference to the paper entitled ' Prevention of Smallpox by Vaccination and Revaccination' published in the May 1945 issue of your esteemed journal I beg to further supplement my observations by offering the following hypothesis regarding the conception of immunity and its fluctuations, conferred by smallpox vaccination and revacci...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1878
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)40851-3