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标题：Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1993-1998
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作者：Peter McIntyre ; Janaki Amin ; Heather Gidding 等
期刊名称：Communicable Diseases Intelligence
印刷版ISSN：1447-4514
电子版ISSN：1445-4866
出版年度：2000
卷号：24
期号：9
出版社：Government Department of Health and Ageing
摘要：Since the introduction of childhood vaccination for diphtheriain 1932 and the widespread use of vaccines to preventtetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and poliomyelitis in the1950s, deaths in Australia from vaccine preventablediseases (VPDs) have declined by more than 99 per cent. Itis important, however, that the downward trend in morbidityand mortality from VPDs is maintained and carefullymonitored, and that changes are interpreted in relation tovaccination coverage