Does Indian version of shake test correctly identify frozen damage vaccines?

Bulletin, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 125-130

  Grover, Ashoo ^a   Singh, Amarjeet ^a   Aggarwal, A K ^a   Thakur, J S ^a  

^a Department of Community Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Cold chain; Immunization; Shake test; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FREEZING; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 11844300405     PISSN: 03022404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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