The BCG world atlas: A database of global BCG vaccination policies and practices

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zwerling, Alice ^a,b   Behr, Marcel A ^a,c   Verma, Aman ^a   Brewer, Timothy F ^a   Menzies, Dick ^a,b,c   Pai, Madhukar ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BCG VACCINATION; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

BCG VACCINE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INTERNET; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79953726311     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001012     Document Type: Article

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