What the World's religions teach, applied to vaccines and immune globulins

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2011-2023

  Grabenstein, John D ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Beliefs; Immune globulins; Religion; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; EXCIPIENT; GELATIN; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TRYPSIN; VACCINE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

BACTERIUM; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY; CRYOPRECIPITATION; DECISION MAKING; DILUTION; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDLINE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PARENT; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIGION; REVIEW; RUBELLA VIRUS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPIRITUAL HEALING; THEOLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CULTURE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RELIGION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84875488587     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.02.026     Document Type: Review

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