Use of hepatitis A vaccine in a community-wide outbreak of hepatitis A

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 531-535

  Craig, Allen S ^c   Sockwell, Denise C ^c   Schaffner, William ^b   Moore Jr , William L ^c   Skinner, Jena T ^a   Williams, Ian T ^c   Shaw, Frederic E ^c   Shapiro, Craig N ^c   Bell, Beth P ^c  

^a BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; LICENSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031686557     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514700     Document Type: Article

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