Further efforts needed to achieve measles elimination in Germany: results of an outbreak investigation

• Principais autores: Ole Wichmann (Autor), Anette Siedler (Autor), Daniel Sagebiel (Autor), Wiebke Hellenbrand (Autor), Sabine Santibanez (Autor), Annette Mankertz (Autor), Georg Vogt (Autor), Ulrich van Treeck (Autor), Gérard Krause (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization, 2009-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVE: To determine morbidity and costs related to a large measles outbreak in Germany and to identify ways to improve the country's national measles elimination strategy. METHODS: We investigated a large outbreak of measles in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) that occurred...