Monitoring of measles elimination using molecular epidemiology

Vaccine

Volumn 19, Issue 17-19, 2001, Pages 2245-2249

  Mulders, Mick N ^a   Truong, Anh T ^a   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genotype; Measles

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; VACCINATION;

EID: 0035925614     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00453-9     Document Type: Article

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