Annual incidence rates of herpes zoster among an immunocompetent population in the United States.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on November 06, 2015

Authors

Barbara H Johnson1, Liisa Palmer2, Justin Gatwood3, Gregory Lenhart4, Kosuke Kawai5, Camilo J Acosta6

Author Affiliations

1: Outcomes Research, Truven Health Analytics, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. barbara.h.johnson@truvenhealth.com.
2: Outcomes Research, Truven Health Analytics, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. liisa.palmer@truvenhealth.com.
3: Outcomes Research, Truven Health Analytics, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. jgatwood@uthsc.edu.
4: Outcomes Research, Truven Health Analytics, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. greg.lenhart@truvenhealth.com.
5: Vaccines, Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA. kkawai8@gmail.com.
6: Vaccines, Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA. camilo.acosta@merck.com.

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