Measles surveillance in Victoria, Australia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Wang, Yung Hsuan J ^a   Andrews, Ross M ^b   Lambert, Stephen B ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia (source: MeSH, NLM); Disease notification; Epidemiologic methods; Measles epidemiology; Sentinel surveillance

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH MONITORING; MEASLES; SURVEYING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MEASLES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VICTORIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 33244475564     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.05.025064     Document Type: Article

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