Japanese encephalitis vaccine: Need of the hour in endemic states of India

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-493

  Verma, Ramesh ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Infection; Japanese encephalitis; Mosquito; Outbreak; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

DILUENT; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

ASIA; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHINA; CULEX; CULEX VISHNUI; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG APPROVAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INSECT BITE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NEPAL; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NOTE; POWDER; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH KOREA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIC; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; REVIEW; SEASON; TOPOGRAPHY; VACCINATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; HUMANS; INDIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINES; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SEASONS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84860735665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.18925     Document Type: Note

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