A success story of Pakistan: The country at the verge of winning the battle against polio.

Travel Med Infect Dis

Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Published: April 2018

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