Global polio eradication: Progress, but determination and vigilance still needed

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1337, 2011, Pages

  Chambers, Stephen T ^a   Dickson, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFGHANISTAN; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ERADICATION THERAPY; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; NAUSEA; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; SANITATION; SWEATING; TAJIKISTAN; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79959855820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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