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International Scholarly Research Notices
Volume 2015, Article ID 170236, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/170236
Research Article

Examining Provincial HPV Vaccination Schemes in Canada: Should We Standardise the Grade of Vaccination or the Number of Doses?

Carley Rogers1 and Robert J. Smith?2

1Department of Mathematics, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
2Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5

Received 5 November 2014; Accepted 19 March 2015

Academic Editor: San-Lin You

Copyright © 2015 Carley Rogers and Robert J. Smith?. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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