Nature Abhors a Vacuum, but Public Health Is Loving It: The Sustained Decrease in the Rate of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease
Open Access
- 15 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 40 (6) , 831-833
- https://doi.org/10.1086/428064
Abstract
Prevention of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection through immunization is one of the great public health successes of the late 20th century.Keywords
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