Vaccines as community-focused therapy

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-343

  May, Thomas ^a  

^a Medical College of Wisconsin Center for the Study of Bioethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINE;

AUTISM; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MEASLES; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RUBELLA; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 0037833633     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2.3.341     Document Type: Editorial

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