title: H1N1 2009 pandemic flu vaccination campaign: The Homeless lesson.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brouqui
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lagier
authors.forename: Nadim
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cassir
authors.forename: Sékéné
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Badiaga
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gadelius