Towards elimination: measles susceptibility in Australia and 17 European countries

• Main Authors: Nick Andrews (Author), Annedore Tischer (Author), Annette Siedler (Author), Richard G Pebody (Author), Christopher Barbara (Author), Suzanne Cotter (Author), Arnis Duks (Author), Nina Gacheva (Author), Kriz Bohumir (Author), Kari Johansen (Author), Joel Mossong (Author), Fernando de Ory (Author), Katarina Prosenc (Author), Margareta Sláciková (Author), Heidi Theeten (Author), Marios Zarvou (Author), Adriana Pistol (Author), Kalman Bartha (Author), Dani Cohen (Author), Jo Backhouse (Author), Algirdas Griskevicius (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2008-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate age-specific measles susceptibility in Australia and 17 European countries. METHODS: As part of the European Sero-Epidemiology Network 2 (ESEN2), 18 countries collected large national serum banks between 1996 and 2004. These banks were tested for measles IgG and the results co...