Should health-care providers in the United States have access to influenza vaccines formulated for the southern hemisphere?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 442-446

  Strikas, Raymond A ^a   Kozarsky, Phyllis E ^b,c   Reed, Christie ^c   Kapella, Brian K ^c   Freedman, David O ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG USE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFLUENZA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

ASIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LATIN AMERICA; OCEANIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; TRAVEL; WEST INDIES;

EID: 56849132864     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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