Influenza among afebrile and vaccinated healthcare workers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1591-1595

  Ridgway, Jessica P ^a   Bartlett, Allison H ^a   Garcia Houchins, Sylvia ^b   Cariño, Sean ^b   Enriquez, Aurea ^b   Marrs, Rachel ^b   Perez, Cynthia ^b   Shah, Mona ^b   Guenette, Caroline ^b   Mosakowski, Steve ^b   Beavis, Kathleen G ^a   Landon, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

healthcare workers; influenza; vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CORONAVIRIDAE; COUGHING; EMPLOYEE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINORRHEA; SORE THROAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CLASSIFICATION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUSES;

EID: 84930407986     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ163     Document Type: Article

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