Reemergence of Japanese Encephalitis in South Korea, 2010–2015
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Japanese encephalitis immunization in South Korea: past, present, and future.
Japanese encephalitis (JE), once a major public health problem in South Korea, has declined since the 1980s, as a result of improved living conditions, a mosquito eradication program, and a national JE vaccination program, which includes annual booster vaccine for all children less than or equal to 15 years of age. Increased immunity has greatly reduced illness and death; however, vaccine adver...
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There is an error in the tenth sentence of the Abstract. The correct sentence is: In addition, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays were conducted to determine recent viral infections and 12 (1.3%) subjects were found to have been recently infected by the virus. There is an error in the first sentence of the “Recent infection to Japanese encephalitis virus” section of the Results. The correct sen...
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دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016