Building laboratory capacity to support the global rotavirus surveillance network

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 409-412

  Serhan, Fatima ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; LABORATORIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84878275171     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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