Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 210-213 , May 2008

Is Underimmunization Associated With Child Maltreatment?

Received 13 August 2007 ,Accepted 14 January 2008.

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 Presented in part as a poster at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Calif, April 2006; and at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, Greenwich, Conn, March 2006.

PII: S1530-1567(08)00003-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ambp.2008.01.001

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 210-213 , May 2008

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