Paperless registration during survey enumerations and large oral cholera mass vaccination in zanzibar, the United republic of Tanzania

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 556-559

  Ali, Mohammad ^a   Deen, Jaqueline L ^a   Khatib, Ahmed ^b   Enwere, Godwin ^c   von Seidlein, Lorenz ^a   Reyburn, Rita ^a   Ali, Said Mohammed ^b   Chang, Na Yoon ^a   Perroud, Valérie ^c   Marodon, Frédérique ^c   Saleh, Abdul A ^b   Hashim, R ^a   Lopez, Anna L ^a   Beard, James ^a   Ley, Benedikt N ^a   Thriemer, Kamala ^a   Puri, Mahesh K ^a   Sah, Binod ^a   Jiddawi, Mohamed Saleh ^b   Clemens, John D ^a  

^a International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^b Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MICROCOMPUTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TANZANIA;

CHOLERA VACCINES; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; HUMANS; MASS VACCINATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; TANZANIA;

EID: 77954489750     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.070334     Document Type: Article

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