Ad Hoc Influenza Vaccination During Years of Significant Antigenic Drift in a Tropical City With 2 Seasonal Peaks: A Cross-Sectional Survey Among Health Care Practitioners.

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Published in Medicine (Baltimore) on May 01, 2016

Authors

Martin C S Wong1, E Anthony S Nelson, Czarina Leung, Nelson Lee, Martin C W Chan, Kin Wing Choi, Timothy H Rainer, Frankie W T Cheng, Samuel Y S Wong, Christopher K C Lai, Bosco Lam, Tak Hong Cheung, Ting Fan Leung, Paul K S Chan

Author Affiliations

1: From the School of Public Health and Primary Care (MCSW, SYSW); Department of Paediatrics (EASN, FWTC, TFL); Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (CL); Department of Medicine and Therapeutics (NL, KWC); Department of Microbiology (MCWC, PKSC); Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit (THR); Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong (THC); Department of Pathology (Microbiology), Queen Elizabeth Hospital (CKCL); and Department of Pathology (Microbiology), Princess Margaret Hospital (BL), Hong Kong SAR.

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