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Successful public health response to four cases of imported measles in Panama.
Journal of infection in developing countries - 21 Aug 2012
Sosa Nestor, Guerra Ilka, Abrego Leyda, Cisneros Julio, Castillo Juan, Nieto-Guevara Javier, Gálvez Carlos, Moltó Yadira, Smith Rebecca E, Pascale Juan Miguel
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In Panama, the last endemic cases of measles occurred in 1995. In this paper, we report four cases of imported measles in three girls and one boy after they returned from a trip to Poland and Israel between 28 April and 11 May 2011. The etiologic diagnosis of the four cases was confirmed by detection of IgM antibodies against measles virus and positive polymerase chain reaction using measles-specific primers. All...
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