Measles outbreak in venezuela: A new challenge to postelimination surveillance and control?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Sarmiento, Héctor ^a,d   Cobo, Oswaldo Barrezueta ^c   Morice, Ana ^c,e   Zapata, Roger ^c   Benitez, María Victoria ^b   Castillo Solórzano, Carlos ^c  

^a National Directorate of Immunization   (Brazil)

^b Ministry of Popular Power for Health   (Venezuela)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental Health of Portuguese State ^*  (United States)

^e Vice Minister of Health   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES RUBELLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; VACCINATION; VENEZUELA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CASE FINDING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; IMPORT DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; MASS VACCINATION; MEASLES; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; VENEZUELA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053423323     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir444     Document Type: Article

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