Global lessons from India's poliomyelitis elimination campaign

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 232-234

  Arora, Narendra K ^a   Chaturvedi, Sanjay ^b   Dasgupta, Rajib ^c  

^a The INCLEN Trust International   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

DISEASE CONTROL; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; IMMUNIZATION; POLIOMYELITIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFGHANISTAN; CROWDING; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; NIGERIA; PAKISTAN; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INDIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

INDIA;

EID: 77649125310     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.072058     Document Type: Short Survey

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