Epidemiology of measles in Southwest Nigeria: an analysis of measles case-based surveillance data from 2007 to 2012
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Epidemiology of measles in Southwest Nigeria: an analysis of measles case-based surveillance data from 2007 to 2012.
BACKGROUND In Nigeria, a system of measles case-based surveillance with laboratory confirmation of suspected cases was introduced in 2005 as one of the strategies for the control of measles morbidity and mortality. In this report, we provide an epidemiological distribution of confirmed cases of measles reported from the southwest of the country between 2007 and 2012, and predict the expected nu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1878-3503,0035-9203
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru004