No country is safe without global eradication of poliomyelitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2045-2046

  Mundel, Trevor ^a   Orenstein, Walter A ^b  

^a BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA; CHINA; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISRAEL; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS 2; POLIOVIRUS 3; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOMALIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84889827278     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1311591     Document Type: Editorial

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