The art of medicine: Polio provocation: Solving a mystery with the help of history

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9940, 2014, Pages 300-301

  Mawdsley, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

DIPHTHERIA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARALYSIS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TETANUS; ANXIETY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HERD IMMUNITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; HISTORY; TONSILLECTOMY;

CHILD; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; TONSILLECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904786168     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61251-4     Document Type: Review

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