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Monitoring of measles elimination using molecular epidemiology.
Vaccine - 21 Mar 2001
Mulders M N, Truong A T, Muller C P
Abstract excerpt
The different measles virus genotypes are confined to more or less distinct geographic regions. Molecular characterization of virus isolates has been successfully used to determine epidemiological links between cases and the geographic origin of imported viruses. In Europe, indigenous measles has been eliminated in some countries, but in others the disease is still endemic. Intra-outbreak variability can be used...
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