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Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance
In 1992 surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases was introduced in Malaysia along with the establishment of a national referral laboratory at the Institute for Medical Research. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, viral etiology and clinical picture of AFP cases below 15 years of age, reported from 2002 to 2007. Six hundred seventy-eight of 688 reported cases ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2581-3250
DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2019.9.1.0197