Wild polioviruses: Can we afford to leave them in the cold?

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Kant, Lalit ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOSAFETY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; DESTRUCTION; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LABORATORY; MATERIALS HANDLING; MICROBIOLOGY; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; RESEARCH;

EID: 1842855278     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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