Seroprevalence of vaccine preventable and blood transmissible viral infections (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, HBV, HCV and HIV) in medical students

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 145-150

  Wicker, Sabine ^a,c   Rabenau, Holger F ^a   Gottschalk, René ^b   Doerr, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Allwinn, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Health Office   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immune status; Medical students; Vaccination; Virus serology

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS C VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL STUDENT; MUMPS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEASLES; MIDDLE AGED; MUMPS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLIOMYELITIS; RUBELLA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34447510086     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-007-0036-3     Document Type: Article

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