Overcoming the difficulty of achieving elimination status for measles and rubella due to imported infections: Estimation of the reproduction number R for measles and rubella

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019 Jul-Aug:30:137-138. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.05.004. Epub 2019 May 8.

Authors

Hiroshi Nishiura¹, Taishi Kayano², Ryo Kinoshita²

Affiliations

¹ Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan. Electronic address: nishiurah@med.hokudai.ac.jp.
² Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan.

PMID: 31075426
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.05.004

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases, Imported / prevention & control*
Communicable Diseases, Imported / virology*
Disease Eradication / statistics & numerical data*
Global Health
Humans
Measles / transmission*
Measles Vaccine / therapeutic use
Rubella / transmission*
Vaccination / statistics & numerical data

Substances

Measles Vaccine