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Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination: How Far We Have Come and How to Go Farther

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Henry M. Wu  and
Elias Abrutyn
Henry M. Wu*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elias Abrutyn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N. 15th Street, Mail Stop 461, Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 11 , November 2004 , pp. 901 - 903
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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