The global polio eradication initiative: Lessons learned and prospects for success

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Aylward, Bruce ^a   Tangermann, Rudolf ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eradication; Oral poliovaccine; Poliomyelitis; Population immunity

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ACUTE ONSET FLACCID PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHAD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERADICATION THERAPY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DISEASE ERADICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POLIOMYELITIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84859509025     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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