Conjugate Hib vaccines

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9355, 2003, Pages 360-361

  Steinhoff, Mark ^a   Goldblatt, David ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

DIPHTHERIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HERD; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; NASOPHARYNX; NOTE; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037309619     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12441-5     Document Type: Note

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