National serosurvey of poliovirus immunity in Australia, 1996-99

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-52

  Gidding, Heather F ^a   Backhouse, Josephine L ^a,b   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^a,b   Burgess, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 15044351028     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00748.x     Document Type: Article

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