So close: Remaining challenges to eradicating polio

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Toole, Michael J ^a  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elimination; Eradication; Polio; Poliomyelitis; Poliovirus

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE ERADICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NOTE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; VACCINATION; VACCINATION FATIGUE; VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WILD POLIOVIRUS; AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA; CHILD; GLOBAL HEALTH; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PAKISTAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA; CHILD; DISEASE ERADICATION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84960421152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0594-6     Document Type: Note

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