Health care workers and pertussis: An underestimated issue

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 882-886

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Rose, Markus A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health care worker; Nosocomial transmission; Occupational infections; Pertussis; Vaccination schedule

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERTUSSIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WHOOPING COUGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251645443     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-010-1153-0     Document Type: Article

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