Paralytic Poliomyelitis
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Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.
In the wake of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) program to eradicate poliomyelitis globally by the end of the year 2000 (in 1997 only 5,186 cases were reported world-wide), attention has focussed on the importance of good surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis, which is essential for a country to qualify for being declared polio-free, and on the occurrence of vaccine–associated paralytic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.31.352.60