Polio will go, acute fl accid paralysis will stay

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9936, 2014, Pages 2209-2210

  Ayukekbong, James A ^a   Bergström, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISEASE ERADICATION; ENTEROVIRUS 71; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FUNDING; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTONEURON; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS; IMMUNIZATION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE ERADICATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS;

EID: 84903194817     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61080-1     Document Type: Letter

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