Reactive vaccination as an effective tool for measles outbreak control in measles mortality reduction settings, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2005-2006

International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-68

  Alberti, Kathryn P ^a   King, Lisa A ^b,c   Burny, Marie Eve ^d   Ilunga, Benoit Kebela ^e   Grais, Rebecca F ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^c European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)

^d MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^e Division Provinciale de la Santé Publique   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

Africa South of the Sahara; Control; Disease outbreaks; Mass immunization; Measles; Urban health

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGO; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77949335060     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inhe.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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