Conflict and polio: Winning the polio wars

JAMA

Volumn 310, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 905-906

  Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFGHANISTAN; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NIGERIA; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84883316606     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.276583     Document Type: Short Survey

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