he recent measles epidemic in the United States has aroused public disbelief that a disease well-controlled for decades is reemerging to threaten children in the United States. Controversy surrounds measles vaccination in the United States; some parents have even avoided vaccinating their healthy children by exposing them to measles-infected children. However, measles has repeatedly reemerged i...

A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on blood samples (n=200)collected from children of 1 to 10 years age, selected by convenient sampling method. Differentcoupling agents were used bind measles antigen with erythrocyte suspensions differentconcentrations collected different species for standardization Indirect Hemagglutination Assay(IHA) which then testing serum the detection and ...

Letters Letter to the editor: Measles outbreak linked to an international dog show in Slovenia – primary cases and chains of transmission identified in Italy, November to December 2014 Regional contact points for measles surveillance. Letter to the editor: Measles outbreak linked to an international dog show in Slovenia – primary cases and chains of transmission identified in Italy, To the edit...

D Janta ([email protected])1,2, A Stanescu1, E Lupulescu3, G Molnar4, A Pistol1 1. National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. National Institute of Research an...

LB-4. Clinical Characteristics and Factors Associated With Measles Transmission in California Jennifer Zipprich, MS, PhD; Matthew Zahn, MD; Kathleen Harriman, PhD, MPH, RN; James D. Cherry MD, MSc, FIDSA; Immunization Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California; Epidemiology and Assessment, Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, California; Pediatric Infectious Di...

Measles-Containing Vaccines Nicola P. Klein, MD, PhD; Ned Lewis, MPH; Julia Mcdonald, MS, MPH; Bruce Fireman, MA; Allison Naleway, PhD; Jason Glanz, PhD; Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH; Melissa Simpson, DVM, PhD; Roger Baxter, MD; Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Oakland, CA; The Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR; Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, CO; Grou...

A Filia 1 , M Faccini 2 , A Amendola 3 , F Magurano 4 , on behalf of the authors of the original article 5 1. Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 2. Health Protection Agency, Metropolitan Area of Milan, Milan, Italy 3. Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 4. National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rube...

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