Can postexposure vaccination against smallpox succeed?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 622-629

  Mortimer, Philip P ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALLPOX; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BIOTERRORISM; HUMANS; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037370144     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374054     Document Type: Article

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