Status of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome surveillance, 2005-2009, the World Health Organization European Region

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Zimmerman, Laura A ^a   Muscat, Mark ^b   Jankovic, Dragan ^c   Goel, Ajay ^c   Bang, Henrik ^b   Khetsuriani, Nino ^a   Martin, Rebecca ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; RUBELLA; SAN MARINO; USSR; HEALTH SURVEY; TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RUBELLA; RUBELLA SYNDROME, CONGENITAL; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79960859417     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir104     Document Type: Article

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