Ongoing outbreak with well over 4,000 measles cases in Italy from January to end August 2017 − what is making elimination so difficult?

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 37, 2017, Pages

  Filia, A ^a   Bella, A ^a   Del Manso, M ^a   Baggieri, M ^a   Magurano, F ^a   Rota, M C ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; VACCINATION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; ITALY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029874724     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.37.30614     Document Type: Article

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