Vaccines as tools to reduce ARI burden: Merits and some inherent verticality in the debate

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-37

  Chaturvedi, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; VACCINE;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BANGLADESH; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHINA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MEASLES VIRUS; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION; PAKISTAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INDIA; MEASLES VACCINE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VACCINES;

EID: 74749084035     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-010-0002-9     Document Type: Editorial

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