Measles outbreak in Barcelona. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics;Brote de sarampión en Barcelona. Características clínicas y epidemiológicas

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-86

  Monfort, Laura ^a   Muñoz, David ^a   Trenchs, Victoria ^a   Hernández, Susanna ^a   José García, Juan ^a   Cristina Aguilar, Ana ^a   Teresa Juncosa, María ^a   Luaces, Carles ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Children; Measles; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; KOPLIK SPOT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MOUTH DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES VIRUS; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; URINE; VACCINATION;

EID: 75049084206     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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