Case-fatality rate during a measles outbreak in Eastern Niger in 2003

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 322-328

  Nandy, Robin ^a   Handzel, Thomas ^a   Zaneidou, Maman ^b   Biey, José ^c   Coddy, Rene Z ^c   Perry, Robert ^a   Strebel, Peter ^a   Cairns, Lisa ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Direction de la Surveillance et du Contrôle Epidémiologique   (Niger)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHILD; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; NIGER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 31044446624     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499240     Document Type: Article

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