Spotlight on measles 2010: A measles outbreak in a roma population in Pulawy, Eastern Poland, June to August 2009

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 15-19

  Orlikova, H ^a,b   Rogalska, J ^a   Kazanowska Zielinska, E ^c   Jankowski, T ^c   Slodzinski, J ^d   Kess, B ^d   Stefanoff, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c State District Sanitary Inspectorate   (Poland)

^d State Regional Sanitary Inspectorate   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COUGHING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; GIPSY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GYPSIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEASLES; POLAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77952717918     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.17.19550-en     Document Type: Article

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