Tracking progress toward polio eradication — Worldwide, 2013–2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 415-420

  Porter, Kimberly A ^a   Diop, Ousmane M ^b   Burns, Cara C ^a   Tangermann, Rudolph H ^b   Wassilak, Steven G F ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE ERADICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAPLEGIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE ERADICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PARAPLEGIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84931031411     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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