School-located influenza vaccination: Why worth the effort?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-335

  Gaglani, Manjusha J ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Texas A and M Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Herd immunity protection; Influenza; Influenza vaccine; Influenza vaccine effectiveness; School located influenza vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SCHOOL; VACCINATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SCHOOLS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84905019140     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu344     Document Type: Note

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