Improving global virologic surveillance for measles and rubella

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Rota, Paul A ^a   Brown, Kevin E ^b   Hübschen, Judith M ^c   Muller, Claude P ^c   Icenogle, Joseph ^a   Chen, Min Hsin ^a   Bankamp, Bettina ^a   Kessler, Julia R ^c   Brown, David W ^b   Bellini, William J ^a   Featherstone, David ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FILTER PAPER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SAMPLING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; STANDARD; TIME; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; VERO CELLS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79960852706     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir117     Document Type: Article

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