title: Ongoing measles outbreak in Romania, 2011.
abstract: Since January 2011 Romania has been experiencing a measles outbreak with 2,072 cases notified in 29 of the 42 Romanian districts. Most cases occurred in the north-western part of the country among unvaccinated children with the highest number of cases (893 cases) registered in children aged one to four years. This report underlines once more the need for additional measures targeting susceptible populations to achieve high vaccination coverage with two doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania. aurora.stanescu@insp.gov.ro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stanescu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Janta
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lupulescu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Necula
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazar
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pistol
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000097:blood; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D008459:Measles virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011159:Population Surveillance; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D007075:Immunoglobulin M; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine