Measles surveillance in 5 major US cities: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Kolasa, Maureen ^a,g   Alexopoulos, Nicole ^b   Diaz, Pamela ^c   Kellachan, Jacqueline ^d   Lowrey, Mary Jane ^e   Shelton, Barbara ^f   Herpaz, Rafael ^a   Papania, Mark J ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^e City of Houston Health and Human Services Department   (United States)

^f Miami Dade Health Department   (United States)

^g Mailstop E 52 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION;

CHICAGO; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOS ANGELES; MEASLES; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TEXAS; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2442463401     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377717     Document Type: Review

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