Association of physical trauma with risk of herpes zoster among medicare beneficiaries in the United States

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1007-1011

  Zhang, John X ^a   Joesoef, Riduan M ^a   Bialek, Stephanie ^a   Wang, Chengbin ^a   Harpaz, Rafael ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Herpes zoster; Medicare; risk factor; trauma

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INJURY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874283024     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis937     Document Type: Article

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