The communicable disease picture in New Zealand today

Healthcare Review Online

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Orchard, Valerie A ^a   Baker, Michael ^a   Martin, Diana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ENTEROPATHY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEASLES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEW ZEALAND; PERTUSSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037891428     PISSN: 11737956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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