Measles elimination
Measles vaccine coverage estimates in an outbreak three years after the nation wide campaign in China: implications for measles elimination, 2013
... effective measles elimination strategy. When a measles outbreak occurs in a commu- nity, an initial step for public health officials can be to use population estimates to determine whether the num- ...
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Obstacles in measles elimination: an in-depth description of a measles outbreak in Ghent, Belgium, spring 2011
... Risks for future outbreaks are still present. A large amount of susceptible children still remain in these anthroposophic schools. As is shown in this outbreak, waiting rooms of GPs with an anthroposophic practice are ...
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Status of Measles Elimination in Eleven Countries with High Routine Immunisation Coverage in The WHO African Region
... Background: Measles elimination is defined as the absence of endemic measles virus transmission in a defined geographic area for at least 12 months in the presence of a well-performing surveillance ...
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Progress Towards Measles Elimination in Nigeria: 2012 – 2016
... the measles elimination targets, Nigeria should utilise all opportunities to prioritise and address the core and supportive elements of the immunisation system (including immunisation program financing, ...
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Combining serological and contact data to derive target immunity levels for achieving and maintaining measles elimination
... towards measles eradication established by the World Health Assembly ...of elimination prospects for different immunity profiles, leading to higher (for a threshold of 94%) or lower (for a threshold of 92%) ...
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Measles Virus IgG Avidity Assay for Use in Classification of Measles Vaccine Failure in Measles Elimination Settings
... endemic measles virus has been eliminated, diagnostic assays are needed to assist in correctly classifying mea- sles cases irrespective of vaccination ...A measles IgG avidity assay was configured using a ...
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The 2013 measles outbreak in Sri Lanka: experience from a rural district and implications for measles elimination goals
... of measles during this outbreak were well documented ...five measles-related deaths, however, their actual causes were not docu- ...the measles pa- tients admitted to the UMU had a normal WCC, ...
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The pre-vaccination regional epidemiological landscape of measles in Italy: contact patterns, effort needed for eradication, and comparison with other regions of Europe
... for elimination of measles in Italy, which could then constitute a useful tool for prioritising regional intervention priorities in the context of the agreed WHO target for measles elimination ...
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Implementing the communication for development strategy to improve knowledge and coverage of measles vaccination in western Chinese immunization programs: a before-and-after evaluation
... The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, in collaboration with UNICEF, conducted a one-year project called “Communication for Develop- ment of Immunization Programs” that began in April 2013. The ...
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Measles Epidemiology in Ethiopia from 2006 - 2016: Predictors of High Measles Incidence from Surveillance Data Analysis
... the measles elimination goal of less than 1 case per million population by 2020 with the current pace of elimination ...routine measles immunization, combined with suboptimal and narrow age ...
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Descriptive study for culling and mortality in five high-producing Spanish dairy cattle farms (2006–2016)
... Clinical, reproduction, production and management data were recorded using specific software (Afifarm, Afimilk, Kibbutz Afikim, 1514800, Israel). The following individual data of the eliminated cows were recorded from ...
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Multinational Measles Outbreak in Post Elimination Era, Involves Three Countries of North America and a European Country in a Short Transmission Chain
... Cases were confirmed in the countries of origin, the genotyping results were informed by the IHR and the Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States. Samples of blood, throat swab and urine were ...
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MEASLES ENCEPHALITIS
... It is significant that all seven fatal cases showed convulsions and coma and that although the majority of cases of measles encephalitis is in the 4 to 8 year age group, five of these.. [r] ...
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Risk factors for measles death: Kyegegwa District, western Uganda, February–September, 2015
... associations. Lack of sufficient sample size also rendered it impossible to conduct more detailed analysis (i.e., strati- fied analysis and regression analysis) to control for con- founding. The risk factor data were ...
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MEASLES ENCEPHALITIS
... MEASLES ENCEPHALITIS: Evaluation of Treatment with Adrenocorticotropin and. Services[r] ...
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Measles Vaccines and the Potential for Worldwide Eradication of Measles
... Kingdom, measles immunization programs suffered a setback in the late 1990s as a consequence of an alleged association between the MMR vaccine (particularly, the measles component), gastrointestinal ...
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MEASLES ENCEPHALITIS
... The first EEG, taken 10 days after onset, showed persistent high voltage 2-3/sec. activity in all leads (Fig. 3a)[r] ...
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Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed measles virus cases in Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia, 2004–2014
... for measles surveillance are based on the WHO/-AFRO Measles and Rubella Surveillance guide- line, and define a suspected measles case as any person with a generalized maculopapular rash and fever ...
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Investigations into the cognitive functioning of subjects with epilepsy in relation to anticonvulsant medication
... 1980]. Measles has been studied extensively after Adams and Imagawa first demonstrated that patients with MS when compared to controls had higher titers of serum antibodies specific to the measles virus ...
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Analyzing Epidemics in New France: The Measles Epidemic of 1714-15
... about measles are used to help to explain the possible circumstances of pre-industrial children in the Discussion section of each ...“The measles epidemic of 1714-15 in New France” examines the general ...
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