The pre-vaccination regional epidemiological landscape of measles in Italy: Contact patterns, effort needed for eradication, and comparison with other regions of Europe

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Manfredi, Piero ^a   Cleur, Eugene M ^a   Williams, John R ^b   Salmaso, Stefania ^c   degli Atti, Marta Ciofi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 18144419770     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-3-1     Document Type: Article

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