H1N1 2009 pandemic flu vaccination campaign: The Homeless lesson.
Homeless are deprived people of developed countries that have a particularly low vaccine coverage and are exposed to vaccine preventable infectious diseases. We report here the efficiency of a voluntary based one-day snapshot influenza vaccination in homeless shelter of Marseille, France, which allowed to obtain a 46.9% H1N1 pandemic vaccine coverage while at the same time only 6% of the French population has been vaccinated.
Brouqui
Philippe
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Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU Nord AP-HM , URMITE CNRS/IRD 6236, faculté de médecine, Université de la méditérranée, Marseille; Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France, URMITE, CNRS 6236 and AP-HM, Marseille, France.
Lagier
Jean-Christophe
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Cassir
Nadim
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Badiaga
Sékéné
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Gadelius
Hans
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