Strengthening the Expanded Programme on Immunization in Africa: Looking beyond 2015

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Machingaidze, Shingai ^a   Wiysonge, Charles S ^a   Hussey, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; NEWBORN TETANUS; PERFORMANCE; PNEUMONIA; POLIOMYELITIS; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER;

AFRICA; CHILD; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; VACCINES;

EID: 84875446616     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001405     Document Type: Article

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