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Vol. 15. Issue 6.
Pages 613-616 (November - December 2011)
Vol. 15. Issue 6.
Pages 613-616 (November - December 2011)
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Reemergence of measles in Bulgaria: a large outbreak in Plovdiv, 2010
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Nikolay Todorov Vatev1, Mariana Vartigova Stoycheva2,
, Andrey Ivanov Petrov1
Corresponding author
mariana_stoycheva@yahoo.com
Correspondence to: Mariana Vartigova Stoycheva Medical University Department of Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Vassil Aprilov 15a, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Correspondence to: Mariana Vartigova Stoycheva Medical University Department of Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Vassil Aprilov 15a, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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