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Herpes zoster: Burden of disease in France.
This work provides estimates of HZ incidence and HZ-related hospitalization and mortality rates in France, where no immunization programme has been implemented. Herpes zoster data was obtained from the Sentinelles surveillance general practitioners (GPs) network, the PMSI Data processing centre for hospital discharges and from the French National Mortality Database (INSERM CépiDC). The yearly H...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Vaccine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0264-410X
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.09.074