Measles surveillance in Victoria, Australia

Measles surveillance in Victoria, Australia

OBJECTIVE: Many countries are implementing measles elimination strategies. In Australia, the State of Victoria has conducted enhanced measles surveillance since 1997 using case interviews and home-based specimen collection for laboratory confirmation. We attempted to identify features of notified ca...

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Main Authors: Wang Yung-Hsuan J, Andrews Ross M, Lambert Stephen B
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Measles/epidemiology
Epidemiologic methods
Disease notification
Sentinel surveillance
Australia
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000200010

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