Influenza vaccination levels and influenza-like illness in long-term-care facilities for elderly people in Niigata, Japan, during an influenza A (H3N2) epidemic

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 728-730

  Oshitani, Hitoshi ^a   Saito, Reiko ^a   Seki, Nao ^a   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Yamazaki, Osamu ^b   Hayashi, Seiji ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Niigata Prefectural Government   (Japan)

^c Niigata City Public Health and Sanitation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; JAPAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033750176     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501725     Document Type: Article

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