A survey of vaccine coverage among Iranian final-year medical students [1]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 429-430

  Tajik, Parvin ^a   Ziaee, Vahid ^a   Tavoosi, Anahita ^a   Rostambeigy, Nasir ^a   Rahbari, Hamed ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; IRAN; LETTER; MEDICAL STUDENT; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 18844443123     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503512     Document Type: Letter

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