Affiliation:
1. Imperial College (London, United Kingdom)
Abstract
This short review provides up-to-date information on vaccination problems for travelers and adults in general, including hepatitis B, meningococcal infection, rabies, yellow fever, measles. The article presents the general principles of approaches to vaccination with a focus on those diseases and potential prospects for solving this problem.
Publisher
Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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