Nosocomial influenza: Need to vaccinate health-care workers

Vaccine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-178

  Maltezou, Helen C ^a  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ABSENTEEISM; EPIDEMIC; GREECE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; VACCINATION;

EID: 57149118605     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.10.060     Document Type: Letter

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