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Tetanus immunization among geriatric hospitalized patients

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  1. Hôpital Erasme, ULB, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    T. Pepersack, S. De Breucker & M. Stubbe

  2. Institut Pasteur du Brabant, Brussels, Rue Engeland 642, 1180, Bruxelles, Belgium

    M. Turneer

  3. CHU Brugmann, Place Van Gehuchten 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium

    I. Beyer

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Pepersack, T., Turneer, M., De Breucker, S. et al. Tetanus immunization among geriatric hospitalized patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 24, 495–496 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-005-1353-3

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