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Ongoing African measles virus genotype outbreak in Tel Aviv district since April, Israel, 2012.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 13 Sept 2012
Kopel E, Amitai Z, Savion M, Aboudy Y, Mendelson E, Sheffer R
Abstract excerpt
A measles outbreak is affecting the Tel Aviv district, Israel, since April 2012. As of 10 September, 99 cases were confirmed, including 63 (64%) migrants of Eritrean and Sudanese origin. All genotyped cases had the African B3 genotype*. The mean age of migrant and non-migrant cases was 6.0±9.6 and 30.2±24.2 years, respectively (p<0.001). The majority of both migrant and non-migrant cases was unvaccinated. This is...
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