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Minimum healthcare worker influenza immunization rates required to decrease influenza transmission in two acute-care hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2020

Victoria R. Williams ,
Maja McGuire ,
Kevin Katz  and
Jerome A. Leis Open the ORCID record for Jerome A. Leis [Opens in a new window]
Victoria R. Williams
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maja McGuire
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kevin Katz
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jerome A. Leis*
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Author for correspondence: Jerome Leis, MD, MSc, FRCPC, E-mail: jerome.leis@sunnybrook.ca
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 109 - 110
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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