Economic costs of measles outbreak in the Netherlands, 2013–2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2067-2069

  Suijkerbuijk, Anita W M ^a   Woudenberg, Tom ^a   Hahné, Susan J M ^a   Lochlainn, Laura Nic ^a,b   de Melker, Hester E ^a   Ruijs, Wilhelmina L M ^a   Lugnér, Anna K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; NETHERLANDS; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; SEROLOGY; VACCINATION; ECONOMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRENDS;

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VACCINATION;

EID: 84944600417     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2111.150410     Document Type: Article

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