Elimination programs: monitoring the effectiveness of surveillance.
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- 15 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 190 (12) , 2195-2196
- https://doi.org/10.1086/425427
Abstract
To the Editor—Harpaz and Papaniaf's [1] efforts to define a surveillance standard for measles-elimination programs—by incorporating data from 86 surveillance programs, principally from the Americas, to determine a median annual rate for measleslike illness (MLI) investigations that ruled out measles—are laudable. Because 90% of the annual rates of testing for measles IgG were ≥1/100,000 population, they suggested that “programs attemptingmeasles elimination consider evaluating surveillance by comparing the annual rate of suspected measles investigations against a minimum standard of 1/100,000 population” [1, p. S204].Keywords
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