Progress and challenges in measles and rubella elimination in the WHO European Region

Vaccine

Volumn 36, Issue 36, 2018, Pages 5408-5415

  Datta, Siddhartha Sankar ^a   O'Connor, Patrick Michael ^a   Jankovic, Dragan ^a   Muscat, Mark ^a   Ben Mamou, Myriam Corrine ^a   Singh, Simarjit ^a   Kaloumenos, Theodoros ^a   Reef, Susan ^b   Papania, Mark ^b   Butler, Robb ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Disease elimination; European Region; Measles; Progress; Rubella; Vaccines; Verification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; RUBELLA; VACCINATION; VACCINATION COVERAGE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MEASLES VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE;

EUROPE; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85021225573     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.042     Document Type: Article

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