Vaccination against classical influenza in health-care workers: Self-protection and patient protection;Impfung gegen die klassische influenza bei medizinischem personal: Selbstschutz und patientenschutz

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 106, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 567-572

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Rabenau, Holger F ^a   Kempf, Volkhard A J ^a   Brandt, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Influenza; Nosocomial infection; Prevention; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; OSELTAMIVIR; ZANAMIVIR;

ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISINFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACE MASK; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HERD IMMUNITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INHALATION; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH; NOSE; NOSE MUCUS; NOSE SMEAR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASS VACCINATION; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 70349881516     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2009.0567     Document Type: Review

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