Smallpox vaccination techniques: Considerations and unresolved issues

Harefuah

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-56

  Balicer, Ran D ^a,b   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a,c   Huerta, Michael ^a   Cohen, Dan ^b   Grotto, Itamar ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bifurcated needle; Smallpox; Standard needle; Vaccination policy; Vaccination technique

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ISRAEL; JET INJECTION; REVIEW; SMALLPOX; HUMAN; INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

HUMANS; INJECTIONS; ISRAEL; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 15944389529     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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