Measles Outbreak Response Immunization Is Context-Specific: Insight from the Recent Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Minetti, Andrea ^a   Bopp, Cameron ^b   Fermon, Florence ^b   François, Gwenola ^b   Grais, Rebecca F ^a   Grout, Lise ^a   Hurtado, Northan ^b   Luquero, Francisco J ^a   Porten, Klaudia ^a   Sury, Laurent ^b   Terzian, Meguerditch ^b  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGO; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; ORGANIZATIONS; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889014903     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544     Document Type: Article

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