Margaret McCartney: What use is mass flu vaccination?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  McCartney, Margaret ^a  

^a Glasgow   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASS VACCINATION;

EID: 84915829319     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6182     Document Type: Note

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