Preplanned national measles vaccination campaign at the beginning of a measles outbreak - Sierra Leone, 2009-2010

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Sugerman, David E ^a   Fall, Amadou ^b   Guigui, Marie Thérèse ^c   N'dolie, Michael ^b   Balogun, Terry ^b   Wurie, Alie ^d   Goodson, James L ^a  

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

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Regional Office for West and Central Africa   (Senegal)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES CONTAINING VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORTALITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPPLEMENTAL IMMUNIZATION ACTIVITY; VACCINATION COVERAGE; VACCINATION STATUS; VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIERRA LEONE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; MASS VACCINATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960862846     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir110     Document Type: Article

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