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Mandatory Influenza Vaccine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark B. Russi  and
Robert. S. Baltimore
Mark B. Russi
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Occupational Health Services, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Robert. S. Baltimore*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
*
Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, Box 208064, New Haven, CT, 06520 (robert.baltimore@yale.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , March 2012 , pp. 222 - 223
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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