Combination vaccines are key to achieving complete on-time childhood immunization coverage

Current Pediatric Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-292

  Aguilar, Félix ^a  

^a Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINE;

CHICKENPOX; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; MEASLES; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MUMPS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RUBELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; THERAPY DELAY; VIRUS INFECTION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 36249016926     PISSN: 15733963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339607782411501     Document Type: Review

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