Monitoring measles elimination in Victoria

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-63

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Li, Zhengfeng ^a   Hsu, Edmond ^a   Andrews, Ross M ^b,c   Lambert, Stephen B ^b,c  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Australian Government Department of Human Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; ERADICATION THERAPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEASLES VIRUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RUBELLA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 15044354608     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00750.x     Document Type: Article

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