Commentary: Poliomyelitis and unnecessary injections
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Commentary: poliomyelitis and unnecessary injections.
vaccines to prevent poliomyelitis have been available for 48 years, paralytic disease continues to occur in some areas, as reported by Kohler et al. 1 elsewhere in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. Let us hope that by the 50th anniversary of the development of the first successful polio-myelitis vaccine all transmission of wild-type polioviruses will have ceased. The Worl...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg071