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Measles virus spread initiated at international mass gatherings in Europe, 2011.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 4 Sept 2014
Santibanez S, Prosenc K, Lohr D, Pfaff G, Jordan Markocic O, Jordan O, Mankertz A
Abstract excerpt
Three parallel transmission chains of measles virus (MV) variant ‘D8-Villupuram’ (D8-V) originated from two coinciding international mass gathering (MG) events in Rimini, Italy, in June 2011. MV D8-V was independently introduced into Germany by two unvaccinated persons, and into Slovenia by one unvaccinated person who had attended these events. Secondary spread of D8-V was restricted to two generations of...
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