Spotlight on measles 2010: An ongoing measles outbreak in the district of neamt, Romania, August -September 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 4-6

  Stanescu, A ^a,b   Muscat, M ^b,c   Romaniuc, A ^d   Pipirigeanu, R ^e   Lupulescu, E ^f   Necula, G ^f   Lazar, M ^f   Molnar, G ^a   Pistol, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Romania)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Institute of Public Health Iasi   (Romania)

^d Public Health Authority of the district of Neamt   (Romania)

^e National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella   (Romania)

^f Ministry of Health   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

ANEMIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPEAN UNION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROMANIA; SCHOOL CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROMANIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 77958166294     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.40.19682-en     Document Type: Article

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