Polio lessons 2013: Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9905, 2013, Pages 1611-1612

  Tulchinsky, Theodore H ^a   Ramlawi, Asad ^b,c   Abdeen, Ziad ^d   Grotto, Itamar ^e   Flahault, Antoine ^f  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c Palestinian Authority   (Palestine)

^d AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f Department of Medical Ethics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ERITREA; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; ISRAEL; KENYA; NOTE; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; SOMALIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84887593074     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62331-4     Document Type: Note

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