Spotlight on measles 2010: A cluster of measles in a hospital setting in Slovenia, March 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Grgic Vitek, M ^a   Frelih, T ^a   Ucakar, V ^a   Prosenc, K ^a   Tomazic J ^b   Petrovec, M ^c   Kraigher, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEASLES; MORBILLIVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLOVENIA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MEASLES; MORBILLIVIRUS; SLOVENIA; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953150635     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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