Causal link between MMR vaccination and autism: Fact or fiction?

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 266-267

  Christie, C D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

AUTISM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; SHORT SURVEY; VACCINATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034487041     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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