Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of médecins sans frontières.
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Minetti, ABopp, C
Fermon, F
François, G
Grais, R
Grout, L
Hurtado, N
Luquero, F J
Porten, K
Sury, L
Terzian, M
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Epicentre, Paris, France.Issue Date
2013-11
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Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.Publisher
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1549-1676ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544
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