Practical observations from an epidemiological investigation of a measles outbreak in a district of India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-121

  Mishra, Ashok ^a   Mishra, Subodh ^a   Lahariya, Chandrakant ^a,b   Jain, Pankaj ^a   Bhadoriya, Rahul S ^a   Shrivastav, Dhiraj ^a   Marathe, Neera ^a  

^a G R MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Attack rate; Case fatality rate; Measles epidemic; Post measles complication; Vaccine failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249089543     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.51234     Document Type: Article

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