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Original Article

Parental Smoking and Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis among Greek Schoolchildren

Jenny Kremastinou National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Athens School of Public Health
,
Caroline Blackwell Department of Medical Microbiology, Aglaia Kyriakou Paediatric Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Georgina Tzanakaki National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Athens School of Public Health
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Constantina Kallergi Aglaia Kyriakou Paediatric Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Robert Elton Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Donald Weir Department of Medical Microbiology, Aglaia Kyriakou Paediatric Hospital, Athens, Greece
Pages 719-723 | Received 05 Apr 1994, Accepted 21 Jul 1994, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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