International Journal of Tropical Medicine

Year: 2009
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Page No. 4 - 8

Community Awareness and Sensitization on Acute Flaccid Paralysis Case Reporting in a Northern State of Nigeria

Authors : O.I. Musa , T.M. Akande , G.A. Salaudeen , A.S. Aderibigbe , A. Bolarinwa and O.R. Jimoh

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