Letter to the editor: Influenza vaccine effectiveness: Heterogeneity in estimates for the 2012/13 season

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  van der Hoek, W ^a   Dijkstra, F ^a   de Lange, M M ^a   Donker, G A ^b   Meijer, A ^a   van der Sande, M A ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

COMORBIDITY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LETTER; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL INFLUENZA;

EID: 84874137551     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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