Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.
case_series · Level IV
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24223523.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544 and PMC identifier 3818158.
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Abstract
Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Medical subject headings
- Developing Countries
- Disease Outbreaks
- Measles
- Vaccination