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Website
- Target Product Profile (TPP) for the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines. www.who.int/immunization/sage/target_product_profile.pdf
- WHO Recommendations to assure the quality, safety and efficacy of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. www.who.int/biologicals/areas/vaccines/pneumo/Pneumo_final_23APRIL_2010.pdf
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- PATH's pneumococcal vaccine project. www.path.org/projects/pneumococcal_protein_vaccine_project.php