Measles outbreak in complex emergency: estimating vaccine effectiveness and evaluation of the vaccination campaign in Borno State, Nigeria, 2019

• Main Authors: Anne Eudes Jean Baptiste (Author), John Wagai (Author), Richard Luce (Author), Balcha Masresha (Author), Don Klinkenberg (Author), Irene Veldhuijzen (Author), Joseph Oteri (Author), Boubacar Dieng (Author), Obianuju Caroline Ikeonu (Author), Sule Meleh (Author), Audu Musa (Author), Fiona Braka (Author), Susan Hahné (Author), E. A. M. Sanders (Author), Eelko Hak (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background From January to May 2019, large measles outbreaks affected Nigeria. Borno state was the most affected, recording 15,237 suspected cases with the state capital of Maiduguri having 1125 cases investigated and line-listed by March 2019. In Borno state, 22 of the 27 Local Government...