Influenza vaccine: An effective preventive vaccine for developing countries

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 675-678

  Verma, Ramesh ^a   Khanna, Pardeep ^a   Chawla, Suraj ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antigenic drifts; Antigenic shifts; Influenza; Surveillance; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H2N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INFLUENZA VIRUS C; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84863645945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.19516     Document Type: Note

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