Challenges With Controlling Varicella in Prison Settings: Experience of California, 2010 to 2011

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-301

  Leung, Jessica ^a   Lopez, Adriana S ^a   Tootell, Elena ^b   Baumrind, Nikki ^b   Mohle Boetani, Janet ^b   Leistikow, Bruce ^b   Harriman, Kathleen H ^c   Preas, Christopher P ^c   Cosentino, Giorgio ^c   Bialek, Stephanie R ^a   Marin, Mona ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b California Correctional Health Care Services   (United States)

^c California Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

chicken pox; costs; outbreak; prison; varicella

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE;

CHICKENPOX; COST; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRISON; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS SCREENING; PRISONS;

EID: 84907207843     PISSN: 10783458     EISSN: 19405200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078345814541535     Document Type: Article

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