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Immunization for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Why Aren’t We Protecting Our Students?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Weber,
William A. Rutala and
William Schaffner
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaDepartment of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaDepartment of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William Schaffner
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
2163 Bioinformatics, CB #7030, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 9 , September 2011, pp. 912 - 914
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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