Measles outbreak response among adolescent and adult Somali refugees displaced by famine in Kenya and Ethiopia, 2011

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 210, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1863-1870

  Navarro Colorado, Carlos ^a   Mahamud, Abdirahman ^a,f   Burton, Ann ^b,g   Haskew, Christopher ^c   Maina, Gidraf K ^d   Wagacha, John B ^b   Ahmed, Jamal A ^c,e   Shetty, Sharmila ^a,h   Cookson, Susan ^a   Goodson, James L ^a   Schilperoord, Marian ^c   Spiegel, Paul ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Kenya)

^c United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Switzerland)

^d UNHCR   (Ethiopia)

^e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

^f Centers for Disease Control   (Kenya)

^g United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Jordan)

^h Doctors Without Borders   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Acute malnutrition; Adults; Famine; Measles; Mortality; Population displacement; Refugees; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; TREND STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; AGED; KENYA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; SOMALIA; STARVATION; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY;

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; SOMALIA; STARVATION; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925545132     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu395     Document Type: Article

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