Reliability of medical students' vaccination histories for immunisable diseases

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Allwinn, Regina ^a   Gottschalk, René ^a   Rabenau, Holger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL STUDENT; MUMPS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPHYLAXIS; RELIABILITY; RUBELLA; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SEROLOGY; VACCINATION; BLOOD; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICS;

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MUMPS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUBELLA; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 42549170615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-121     Document Type: Article

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