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

• Main Authors: Ole Wichmann (Author), Anette Siedler (Author), Daniel Sagebiel (Author), Wiebke Hellenbrand (Author), Sabine Santibanez (Author), Annette Mankertz (Author), Georg Vogt (Author), Ulrich van Treeck (Author), Gérard Krause (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2009-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...