Immunity to Rubella amongst Service Personnel
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Immunity to rubella amongst service personnel.
Introduction This survey was designed to assess the efficiency of policies for the screening of Servicewomen and Medical personnel for susceptibility to Rubella infection. The causal relationship between maternal Rubella and congenital defects has been c1earlyestablished and extensively reviewed in the literature • The disease has a worldwide distribution, being endemic in Western Europe. Epide...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-126-02-05