Predictors of virologically confirmed poliomyelitis in India, 1998-2000

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1321-1327

  Kohler, Kathryn A ^a   Hlady, W Gary ^b   Banerjee, Kaushik ^b   Francis, Paul ^b   Durrani, Sunita ^b   Zuber, Patrick L F ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0036904780     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344190     Document Type: Article

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