An ongoing large outbreak of measles in Merseyside, England, January to June 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 29, 2012, Pages

  Vivancos, R ^a   Keenan, A ^a   Farmer, S ^a   Atkinson, J ^a   Coffey, E ^b   Dardamissis, E ^a   Dillon, J ^b   Drew, R J ^c   Fallon, M ^a   Huyton, R ^a   Jarvis, R ^a   Marsh, G ^a   Mason, R ^d   Shryane, T ^a   Stewart, A ^a   Ghebrehewet, S ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Liverpool Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Health Care Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEASLES VIRUS; NURSERY SCHOOL; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84866396843     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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