A unique measles B3 cluster in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands linked to air travel and transit at a large international airport, February to April 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2016, Pages

  Lochlainn, Laura Nic ^a,b   Mandal, S ^c   de Sousa, R ^a,b   Paranthaman, K ^c   van Binnendijk, R ^a   Ramsay, M ^c   Hahne S ^a   Brown, K E ^c  

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

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

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADULT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RASH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEASLES VIRUS; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR TRAVEL; AIRPORTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962863017     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.13.30177     Document Type: Article

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