Vaccination of health-care personnel;La vacunación del personal sanitario. Recomendaciones y realidades

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 411-412

  Campins Marti M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b C/ Doctor Roux   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; MEASLES; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; PARVOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SALMONELLOSIS; SANITATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 33749389546     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13091776     Document Type: Editorial

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