Emerging cases of pertussis among early infants born to unvaccinated mothers, an infectious disease long absent in Northwestern Greece

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Alexandros Makis
Vasileios Grammeniatis
Charis Galati
Panagiota Kostara
Evangelia Petridou
Constantina Gartzonika
Athanasios Pappas
Nikolaos Chaliasos

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Pertussis, infancy, vaccine

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