Measles: Going, going, but not gone

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1507-1509

  Ostroff, Stephen M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

AVIATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MIGRATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOURISM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ARIZONA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MASS VACCINATION; MEASLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956218199     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir125     Document Type: Note

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