COVID-19:

Dorsa Alijanzadeh1,2, Hanie Karimi2,3, Niloofar Masoumi2,4

  • 1School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Pathogens and global health
|December 17, 2024
PubMed
概括

由于COVID-19大流行扰乱了脊髓灰质炎疫苗接种,导致疫苗接种率下降,疫情风险增加. 整合公众教育和吸引领导人是恢复脊髓灰质炎根除工作的关键.

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