Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.
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.
Epicentre, Paris, France.
Andrea
A
Minetti
Cameron
C
Bopp
Florence
F
Fermon
Gwenola
G
François
Rebecca F
RF
Grais
Lise
L
Grout
Northan
N
Hurtado
Francisco J
FJ
Luquero
Klaudia
K
Porten
Laurent
L
Sury
Meguerditch
M
Terzian
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