Reduction of vaccine-preventable communicable diseases in a Bedouin population: Summary of a community-based intervention programme

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9515, 2006, Pages 987-991

  Belmaker, I ^a   Dukhan, L ^a   Elgrici, M ^a   Yosef, Y ^a   Shahar Rotberg, L ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ARAB; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; PERTUSSIS; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 33645097325     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68425-0     Document Type: Article

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