Reliability of varicella history in children and adolescents

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 135, Issue 17-18, 2005, Pages 252-255

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

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

History; Immunization; Vaccine; Varicella; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SEROPREVALENCE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 20044388971     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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