Measles Outbreak Response Immunization Is Context-Specific: Insight from the Recent Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières
Open Access
- 5 November 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 10 (11) , e1001544
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544
Abstract
Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology. Please see later in the article for the Editors' SummaryKeywords
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