The expanded programme on immunization: A lasting legacy of smallpox eradication

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Okwo Bele, Jean Marie ^a   Cherian, Thomas ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EPI; Eradication; Smallpox

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; SMALLPOX VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ERADICATION THERAPY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; RUBELLA; SMALLPOX; TETANUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; VACCINES;

EID: 84859485973     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.01.080     Document Type: Article

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