Pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus among japanese healthcare workers: Seroprevalence and risk factors

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-62

  Nukui, Yoko ^a   Hatakeyama, Shuji ^b   Kitazawa, Takatoshi ^a   Mahira, Tamami ^a   Shintani, Yoshizumi ^a   Moriya, Kyoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; OCCUPATION; PANDEMIC; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055218790     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663208     Document Type: Article

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