Medical and nursing students with suboptimal protective immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1006-1011

  Pavlopoulou, Ioanna D ^a,e   Daikos, George L ^b,e   Tzivaras, Andreas ^c,e   Bozas, Evangelos ^a   Kosmidis, Chris ^b,e   Tsoumakas, Constantinos ^a,e   Theodoridou, Maria ^d,e  

^a Faculty of Nursing   (Greece)

^b Department of Propedeutic Medicine ^*

^c Blood Transfusion Center   (Brazil)

^d AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL STUDENT; MUMPS; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING STUDENT; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUBELLA; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350015047     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605923     Document Type: Article

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