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Case-based surveillance enhanced with measles virus detection/genotyping is essential to maintain measles elimination in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Vaccine - 9 Nov 2015
Minagawa Hiroko, Yasui Yoshihiro, Adachi Hirokazu, Ito Miyabi, Hirose Emi, Nakamura Noriko, Hata Mami, Kobayashi Shinichi, Yamashita Teruo
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BACKGROUND: Japan was verified as having achieved measles elimination by the Measles Regional Verification Commission in the Western Pacific Region in March 2015. Verification of measles elimination implies the absence of continuous endemic transmission. After the last epidemic in 2007 with an estimated 18,000 cases, Japan introduced nationwide case-based measles surveillance in January 2008. Laboratory diagnosis...
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