Investigation of an outbreak of measles: Failure to vaccinate or vaccine failure in a community of predominantly fishermen in Kerala

• Main Authors: Zinia T. Nujum (Author), Sara Varghese (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Elsevier, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary: Measles outbreaks continue to occur in developing countries. This study attempted to explore the context of an outbreak of measles in a community of predominantly fishermen in Kerala to find out whether the outbreak was the result of a failure to vaccinate or failure of the vaccine itself....