Current Recommendations for Pneumococcal Vaccination of Children and Adults
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Hossein Fakhraei , Soheila Khalilzadeh 2 , Ghamartaj Khanbabaei , Susan Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Mahshid Mehdizadeh , Abbas Momenzadeh, Alireza Nateghian , Payam Tabarsi , Parviz Tabatabaei , Davoud Yadegarinia 9 1 National Immunization Committee of Ministry of health, Tehran, Iran, 2 Clinical TB and Epidemiology Research Center, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 3 Mofid Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 4 Department of Communicable Disease Prevention, Ministry of health, Tehran ,Iran, 5 Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran , Iran, 6 Children Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 7 Aliasghar Hospital, Iran University of Medicines Sciences, Tehran , Iran, 8 Iranian Pediatrics Infectious Society, Tehran, Iran, 9 Labafinezhad Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran , Iran
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