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Tetanus immunity in nursing home residents of Bolu, Turkey

BACKGROUND: Tetanus is a serious but vaccine-preventable disease and fatality rate of the disease is high in the neonates and the elderly. The aim of this study was to detect the tetanus antibody prevalence in the over sixty-year age residents of the nursing homes in Bolu. METHODS: A voluntary-based...

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Autores principales: Karabay, Oguz, Ozkardes, Fatma, Tamer, Ali, Karaarslan, Kazım
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15647120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-5