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Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed measles virus cases in the southern nations of Ethiopia, 2007-2014.
BMC infectious diseases - 19 Jan 2017
Getahun Mekonen, Beyene Berhane, Ademe Ayesheshem, Teshome Birke, Tefera Mesfin, Afework Aklog, HaileMariam Yoseph, Assefa Esete, Hailegiorgis Yonas, Asha Anjelo
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BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, measles case-based surveillance was introduced in 2004 as one strategy for measles control by laboratory confirmation of suspected cases. In this article, epidemiological distribution of laboratory-confirmed measles cases were reported from the Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia between 2007 and 2014, as the region is one of the highly measles affected...
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