Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in Japan

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9815, 2012, Pages 520-

  Hosoda, Miwako ^a   Inoue, Hajime ^a   Miyazawa, Yasuo ^a   Kusumi, Eiji ^b   Shibuya, Kenji ^b  

^a Seisa University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; PEDIATRICIAN; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; VACCINE ASSOCIATED PARALYTIC POLIOMYELITIS;

EID: 84856904448     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60232-3     Document Type: Letter

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