The rise in autism and the mercury myth

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-53

  Scahill, Lawrence ^a   Bearss, Karen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PRESERVATIVE; THIOMERSAL;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC OPINION; THIMEROSAL;

EID: 65449176841     PISSN: 10736077     EISSN: 17446171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2008.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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