Lessons learned from the 1954 Field Trial of Poliomyelitis Vaccine

Clinical Trials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-5

  Burke, Donald S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HISTORY; HUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644700120     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1740774504cn013ed     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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3. Nathanson N, Langmuir A.D. The Cutter incident. Poliomyelitis following formaldehyde-inactivated poliovirus vaccination in the United States during the spring of 1955. Am J Hyg 1963; 78: 16–28.
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