Vaccination of health care workers to protect patients at Increased risk for acute respiratory disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1225-1234

  Dolan, Gayle P ^a   Harris, Rebecca C ^b   Clarkson, Mandy ^c   Sokal, Rachel ^c   Morgan, Gemma ^d   Mukaigawara, Mitsuru ^b   Horiuchi, Hiroshi ^e   Hale, Rachel ^a   Stormont, Laura ^b   Béchard Evans, Laura ^b   Chao, Yi Sheng ^b   Eremin, Sergey ^b   Martins, Sara ^b   Tam, John S ^b   Peñalver, Javier ^b   Zanuzadana, Arina ^f   Nguyen Van Tam, Jonathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEATH; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; PNEUMONIA; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK; VACCINATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK; VACCINATION;

EID: 84864459215     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.111355     Document Type: Article

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