Difficulties in measles elimination: Prevalence of measles antibodies before and after mass vaccination campaign in Laos

Vaccine

Volumn 21, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 479-484

  Kuroiwa, Chushi ^a,b,c   Xayyavong, Phoxay ^b   Vongphrachanh, Phengta ^d   Khampapongpane, Bouaphan ^d   Yamanaka, Miki ^e   Nakamura, Satoshi ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Ministry of Health   (Laos)

^e International Development Center of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibody prevalence; Laos; Mass measles vaccination

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEASLES VIRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAOS; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE;

EID: 0037449491     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(02)00480-2     Document Type: Article

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