Measles on a cruise ship: Links with the outbreak in the Philippines

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Mandal, S ^a   Ramsay, M ^a   Brown, K ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MEASLES; PHILIPPINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEASLES; SHIPS;

EID: 84898873646     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.15.20774     Document Type: Letter

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