Molecular genotyping and epidemiology of measles virus transmission in the World Health Organization European Region, 2007-2009

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Mankertz, Annette ^a   Mulders, Mick N ^a   Shulga, Sergey ^a   Kremer, Jacques R ^a   Brown, Kevin E ^a   Santibanez, Sabine ^a   Muller, Claude P ^a   Tikhonova, Nina ^a   Lipskaya, Galina ^b   Jankovic, Dragan ^a   Khetsuriani, Nino ^c   Martin, Rebecca ^a   Gavrilin, Eugene ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79960876157     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir101     Document Type: Article

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