Measles - The epidemiology of elimination

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 6880-6883

  Durrheim, David N ^a   Crowcroft, Natasha S ^b,c   Strebel, Peter M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Elimination; Measles; Western pacific, Americas, epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COAL MINING; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERINUS; DISEASE ERADICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

MEASLES VACCINE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE;

EID: 84922979388     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.10.061     Document Type: Review

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