Too hot, too cold: Issues with vaccine storage

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1738-1739

  Pickering, Larry K ^a   Wallace, Gregory ^a   Rodewald, Lance ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG STORAGE; FREEZING; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; DRUG STABILITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHILD; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STORAGE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VACCINES;

EID: 33750114895     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1421     Document Type: Note

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