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Post-vaccine measles in a child with concomitant influenza, Sicily, Italy, March 2015.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 21 May 2015
Tramuto F, Dones P, D Angelo C, Casuccio N, Vitale F
Abstract excerpt
We describe the occurrence of measles in an 18 month-old patient in Sicily, Italy, in March 2015, who received the first dose of a measles-containing vaccine seven days before onset of prodromal symptoms. Measles virus infection was confirmed by PCR and detection of specific immunoglobulin; viral genotyping permitted the confirmation of a vaccine-associated illness. The patient had a concurrent influenza virus...
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