Improvement of measles immunity among migrant populations: Lessons learned from a prevalence study in a Swiss prison

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Gétaz, Laurent ^a   Rieder, Jean Pierre ^a   Siegrist, Claire Anne ^b   Kramer, Marie Claire ^a   Stoll, Béat ^b   Humair, Jean Paul ^a   Kossovsky, Michel Pierre ^a   Gaspoz, Jean Michel ^a   Wolff, Hans ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunity; Measles; Prisons; Transients and migrants; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRISON; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SWITZERLAND; VACCINATION;

EID: 79960234741     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13215     Document Type: Article

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