Exploring the time to intervene with a reactive mass vaccination campaign in measles epidemics

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 845-849

  Grais, Rebecca F ^a   De Radigues X ^a   Dubray, C ^a   Fermon, F ^b   Guerin, P J ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; TIME; URBAN AREA;

CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; NIGER; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745578954     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005716     Document Type: Article

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