Yellow fever and Max Theiler: The only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2779-2784

  Norrby, Erling ^a  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BLEEDING; CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEPTOSPIRA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; VIRUS STRAIN; YELLOW FEVER;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

EID: 36549006425     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20072290     Document Type: Review

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