Monitoring the age-specificity of measles transmissions during 2009-2016 in Southern China.

BACKGROUND:Despite several immunization efforts, China saw a resurgence of measles in 2012. Monitoring of transmissions of individuals from different age groups could offer information that would be valuable for planning adequate disease control strategies. We compared the age-specific effective rep...

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Main Authors: Ka Chun Chong, Pei Hu, Steven Lau, Katherine Min Jia, Wenjia Liang, Maggie Haitian Wang, Benny Chung Ying Zee, Riyang Sun, Huizhen Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6175510?pdf=render