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Background paper to the decision to recommend the vaccination with the inactivated herpes zoster subunit vaccine

Statement of the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at the Robert Koch Institute

  • A. Siedler1,
  • J. Koch1,
  • E. Garbe2,
  • H. Hengel3,9,
  • R. von Kries4,
  • T. Ledig5,
  • T. Mertens6,
  • F. Zepp7 &
  • …
  • K. Überla8 

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz volume 62, pages 352–376 (2019)Cite this article

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  1. Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

    A. Siedler & J. Koch

  2. Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    E. Garbe

  3. Institute of Virology, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany

    H. Hengel

  4. Institute of Social Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    R. von Kries

  5. General Practice, Ditzingen, Germany

    T. Ledig

  6. Institute of Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

    T. Mertens

  7. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medicine Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    F. Zepp

  8. Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

    K. Überla

  9. German Consulting Laboratory for HSV and VZV, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    H. Hengel

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Siedler, A., Koch, J., Garbe, E. et al. Background paper to the decision to recommend the vaccination with the inactivated herpes zoster subunit vaccine. Bundesgesundheitsbl 62, 352–376 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-019-02882-5

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