Post-ebola measles outbreak in lola, Guinea, January-June 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1106-1108

  Suk, Jonathan E ^a,b   Jimenez, Adela Paez ^a,b   Kourouma, Mamadou ^b   Derrough, Tarik ^a,b   Baldé, Mamadou ^b   Honomou, Patric ^b   Kolie, Nestor ^b   Mamadi, Oularé ^b   Tamba, Kaduono ^b   Lamah, Kalaya ^b   Loua, Angelo ^b   Mollet, Thomas ^a,b   Lamah, Molou ^c   Nana Camara, Amara ^c   Prikazsky, Vladimir ^a,b  

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

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GUINEA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MEASLES; VACCINATION; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEASLES; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84969220122     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2206.151652     Document Type: Article

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