Texas and Its Measles Epidemics
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Texas and Its Measles Epidemics
Peter Hotez reflects on declining vaccination rates in Texas and the potential for future measles epidemics.
متن کاملMEASLES EPIDEMICS TN KERMAN, IRAN
In early 1990, an outbreak of measles occurred in Kerman, (population 257, 284) Iran. Overall, 475 cases were identified and four died (case fatality ratio 5.4 per thousand). Illness was limited primarily to children below 15 years of age 166 (22.3%) were in children under five, 573 (77%) between 5-14 and six (0.8%) above 15 years of age. The age of the cases ranged from five months to 35 y...
متن کاملModeling Measles Epidemics
Several aspects of alginate and PHB synthesis in Azotobacter vinelandii at a molecular level have been elucidated in articles published during the last ten years. It is now clear that alginate and PHB synthesis are under a very complex genetic control. Genetic modification of A. vinelandii has produced a number of very interesting mutants which have particular traits for alginate production. On...
متن کاملEarly Measles Epidemics in America *
"Their fruit trees are subject to . . . the Meazels, which is when they are burned and scorched with the Sun . . . [and their] . . . Hoggs sometimes have the Meazels, which is known when their hinder legs are shorter than ordinary." Inasmuch as this quotation from John Josselyn's Account of Two Voyages to New England (1674) reveals interesting variations in the meaning of "Meazels," one may que...
متن کاملSpatial dynamics of measles epidemics
successional vertebrates to historic changes in land use. Conserv. Biol.7, 866–873 4 Roland, J. et al. (2000) Alpine Parnassius butterfly dispersal: effects of landscape and population size.Ecology 81, 1642–1653 5 Sisk, T.D. et al. (1997) Bird assemblages in patchy woodlands: modeling the effects of edge and matrix habitats. Ecol. Appl. 7, 1170–1180 6 Hanski, I. and Ovaskainen, O. (2000) The me...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002153