Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.

نویسندگان

  • M A Burgess
  • P B McIntyre
چکیده

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 poliomyelitis (VAPP).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Communicable diseases intelligence

دوره 23 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999