Sero-Surveillance to assess immunity to rubella and assessment of immunogenicity and safety of a single dose of rubella vaccine in school girls

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-137

  Sharma, Hitt ^a   Chowdhari, Sunil ^b   Raina, Tilak Raj ^b   Bhardwaj, Subodh ^a   Namjoshi, Gajanan ^a   Parekh, Sameer ^a  

^a Serum Institute of India Ltd   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Immunogenicity; India; Rubella; School girls; Serosurveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951998444     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.62575     Document Type: Article

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