The impact of a national routine immunisation programme initiated in 1999 on Hepatitis A incidence in Israel, 1993 to 2012.
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H Levine ([email protected])1, E Kopel2, E Anis1,2, N Givon-Lavi3, R Dagan3 1. Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel 2. Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel 3. Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 20 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015