No evidence for MMR-ASD link

Practitioner

Volumn 252, Issue 1704, 2008, Pages 6-

  Baird, Gillian ^a   Brown, David ^b   Simonoff, Emily ^c   Pickles, Andrew ^d   Charman, Tony ^e  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

AUTISM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE;

EID: 41549101382     PISSN: 00326518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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