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Household refrigerator conversion kit for vaccine preservation. Design, principle and testing results.

Kit de conversion des réfrigérateurs ménagers servant à la conservation des vaccins. Conception, principes et résultats des tests.

Author(s) : OMS, WHO

Type of monograph: Booklet

Summary

Household refrigerators are not designed to preserve vaccines. Yet, they are used for that in developing countries. An inexpensive kit has been developed to upgrade such refrigerators. This booklet includes a description of the conversion kit and of its operating principle, along with an assessment of tests done with various household refrigerators that were converted. Extract from the table of contents: goals, design, operating principle, refrigerator interior.

Details

  • Original title: Kit de conversion des réfrigérateurs ménagers servant à la conservation des vaccins. Conception, principes et résultats des tests.
  • Record ID : 1997-3695
  • Languages: French
  • Subject: Developing country
  • Publication: OMS - Switzerland/Switzerland
  • Publication date: 1997/06
  • Source: Source: WHO-EPI-LHIS-94.04; 20 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; phot.; tabl.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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