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|Short Report
2011-12-09 • Science
2011-12-09 • Science
Measles epidemics in West Africa cause a significant proportion of vaccine-preventable childhood mortality. Epidemics are strongly seasonal, but the drivers of these fluctuations are poo...
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|Research
2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
Throughout the African meningitis belt, meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur only during the dry season. Measles in Niger exhibits similar seasonality, where increased population den...
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|Research
2010-09-22 • Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
2010-09-22 • Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
Seasonally driven cycles of incidence have been consistently observed for a range of directly transmitted pathogens. Though frequently observed, the mechanism of seasonality for directly...
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|Commentary
2020-05-19 • Science Immunology
2020-05-19 • Science Immunology
Serological testing for SARS-CoV-2 has enormous potential to contribute to COVID-19 pandemic response efforts. However, the required performance characteristics of antibody tests will cr...
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|Research
2006-09-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-09-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The objective of this study is to estimate the effective reproductive ratio for the 2003-2004 measles epidemic in Niamey, Niger. Using the results of a retrospective and prospective stud...
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|Research
2008-01-06 • Journal of the Royal Society Interface
2008-01-06 • Journal of the Royal Society Interface
The current World Health Organization recommendations for response during measles epidemics focus on case management rather than outbreak response vaccination (ORV) campaigns, which may ...
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|Research
2008-02-07 • Nature
2008-02-07 • Nature
Although vaccination has almost eliminated measles in parts of the world, the disease remains a major killer in some high birth rate countries of the Sahel. On the basis of measles dynam...
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|Research
2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
2010-06-01 • Epidemiology and Infection
Measles vaccine efficacy is higher at 12 months than 9 months because of maternal immunity, but delaying vaccination exposes the children most vulnerable to measles mortality to infectio...
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|Research
2014-01-15 • American Journal of Epidemiology
2014-01-15 • American Journal of Epidemiology
Current mass vaccination campaigns in measles outbreak response are nonselective with respect to the immune status of individuals. However, the heterogeneity in immunity, due to previous...
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|Research
2021-09-01 • Vaccine
2021-09-01 • Vaccine
INTRODUCTION
Rapid outbreak response vaccination is a strategy for measles control and elimination. Measles vaccines must be stored and transported within a specified temperature ran...
Rapid outbreak response vaccination is a strategy for measles control and elimination. Measles vaccines must be stored and transported within a specified temperature ran...
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2014-09-05 • International Health
2014-09-05 • International Health
In 2009, a large meningitis A epidemic affected a broad region of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, resulting in more than 75 000 cases and 4000 deaths. In collaboration with state an...
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|Research
2018-06-15 • BMC Public Health
2018-06-15 • BMC Public Health
BACKGROUND
Despite progress towards increasing global vaccination coverage, measles continues to be one of the leading, preventable causes of death among children worldwide. Whether ...
Despite progress towards increasing global vaccination coverage, measles continues to be one of the leading, preventable causes of death among children worldwide. Whether ...