Gardasil: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	recombinant HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 vaccine • recombinant human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine

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Frazer, Ian; Gardasil

Ian Frazer

Scottish-born Australian immunologist