Hepatitis e vaccine: Not a moment too soon

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9744, 2010, Pages 849-851

  Holmberg, Scott D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG INDUSTRY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SANITATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG INDUSTRY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SANITATION; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; VIRAL HEPATITIS VACCINES;

EID: 77956618982     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61260-3     Document Type: Note

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