Program on immunization and cold chain monitoring: the status in eight health districts in Cameroon

Jérôme Ateudjieu1, Bruno Kenfack, Blaise Wakam Nkontchou

  • 1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon, PO Box 067, Dschang, Cameroon.

BMC Research Notes
|March 19, 2013
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