Italy s new vaccination schedule reduced coverage of poliomyelitis vaccine in Naples
- Resource Type
- Authors
- B Serpieri; M. G. Panico; N M Trinchese; F Attena
- Source
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 5(6)
- Subject
- Poliomyelitis vaccine
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Vaccination schedule
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Oral poliomyelitis vaccine
medicine.disease
Virology
Poliomyelitis
medicine
Christian ministry
sense organs
skin and connective tissue diseases
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1560-7917
Italy’s health ministry introduced changes to the immunisation schedules for children on 7 April 1999, including immunisation against poliomyelitis. The changes included the replacement of the first two childhood doses of oral poliomyelitis vaccine (OPV)