An assessment of wastage multiplier factor (WMF) and percent wastage of vaccines during routine immunization under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), Government of India (GOI)

Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mukherjee, Ajit ^f   Das, Vinita ^a   Srivastava, Aarti ^a   Gupta, Abhilasha ^b   Upadhyay, Anupma ^b   Pandey, Sushma ^c   Ganguly, Devashish ^c   Mukherji, Joydev ^d   Kumar Chakraborty, Amit ^d   Pednekar, Guruprasad ^e   Surme, Shantaram ^e   Rasaily, Reeta ^f   Sinha, Anju ^f  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LLRM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c PATNA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^d R G KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^f INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

BCG; DPT; DT; OPV; TT; UIP; WMF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879924609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21577560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7560.1000181     Document Type: Article

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