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Secular trend and epidemiology of measles in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 2009-2012.
Travel medicine and infectious disease - 1 Jan 2000
Memish Ziad A, Bamgboye Elijah A, Mohammed Mutaz, AlHakeem Rafat, Al-Tawfiq Jaffar A, Assiri Abdullah
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PURPOSE: To determine incidence of measles and progress towards its elimination in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of routinely collected active and passive surveillance data on measles at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. All laboratory confirmed measles from (2009-2012) were analyzed to determine measles annual incidences and distribution by age, gender, nationality, seasonality, vaccination...
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