Limited diversity of measles field isolates after a National Immunization Day in Burkina Faso: Progress from endemic to epidemic transmission?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Mulders, Mick N ^a   Nebie, Yacouba K ^b,c   Fack, Fred ^a   Kapitanyuk, Tetyana ^a,e   Sanou, Oumar ^b   Valéa, Dianne C ^b   Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques ^d   Ammerlaan, Wim ^a   Muller, Claude P ^a,e  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^b CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^c Dist Health Center of Dandé   (Burkina Faso)

^d National Institute of Biomedical Research   (Congo)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; RURAL POPULATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037904611     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368036     Document Type: Article

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