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Measles outbreak in Macedonia: epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings and identification of susceptible cohorts.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Kondova Irena T, Milenkovic Zvonko, Marinkovic Sanja P, Bosevska Golubinka, Kuzmanovska Gordana, Kondov Goran, Alabakovska Sonja, Muller Claude P, Hübschen Judith M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Despite a 92-99% national vaccination coverage since 2000, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia experienced a large measles outbreak between 2010 and 2011. Here we investigate the characteristics of patients hospitalized during this outbreak at the Clinic of Infectious Diseases in Skopje. METHODS: Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data of 284 measles patients, including 251 from Skopje...
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