Evaluation of a measles vaccine efficacy during a measles outbreak in Mbare, City of Harare Zimbabwe

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 254-256

  Mahomva, A I ^a,b   Moyo, I M ^a   Mbengeranwa, L O ^a  

^a Harare City Health Department   (Zimbabwe)

^b Box CY377 ^*  (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORBIDITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SEROCONVERSION;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; VACCINES; VIRAL DISEASES; YOUTH; ZIMBABWE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUBURBAN HEALTH; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031431923     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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