Will the decade of vaccines mean business as usual?

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9789, 2011, Pages 382-385

  Rees, Helen ^a,b,c   Madhi, Shabir A ^d,e  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

DIPHTHERIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MORTALITY; NOTE; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; TETANUS;

EID: 79960912974     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60710-1     Document Type: Note

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