Declining population immunity to mumps among Israeli military recruits

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 37-39, 2006, Pages 6300-6303

  Huerta, Michael ^a   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a   Aboudy, Yair ^b   Ankol, Omer E ^a   Balicer, Ran D ^a   Zarka, Salman ^a   Grotto, Itamar ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mumps; Seroepidemiology; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MUMPS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; IMMUNITY; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUMPS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MUMPS; RUBULAVIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 33747597786     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.05.072     Document Type: Article

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