Sequential and combined use of inactivated and oral poliovirus vaccines: Dolj district, Romania, 1992-1994

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Ion Nedelcu, Nicolae ^b   Strebel, Peter M ^a   Toma, Floares ^b   Biberi Moroeanu, Sanda ^b   Combiescu, Mariana ^b   Persu, Ana ^b   Aubert Combiescu, Andre ^b   Plotkin, Stanley A ^b   Sutter, Roland W ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS POLIOMYELITIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFANT; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROMANIA; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VACCINATION; VIRUS EXCRETION;

EID: 0031017567     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/175.supplement_1.s241     Document Type: Article

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