Recent increases in mumps incidence in Australia: The "forgotten" age group in the 1998 Australian Measles Control Campaign

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 434-437

  Aratchige, Padmasiri E ^a   Mclntyre, Peter B ^a,b   Quinn, Helen E ^a,b   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MUMPS; RUBELLA; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION;

EID: 56349168475     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02115.x     Document Type: Article

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