Seroprevalence and immunization history of selected vaccine preventable diseases in medical students

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2016-2020

  Baer, Gurli ^a   Bonhoeffer, Jan ^a   Schaad, Urs B ^a   Heininger, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunization; Medical students; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHICKENPOX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL STUDENT; MUMPS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RUBELLA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 14244265026     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.03.073     Document Type: Article

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