PLoS Medicine (Nov 2013)

Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.

  • Andrea Minetti,
  • Cameron Bopp,
  • Florence Fermon,
  • Gwenola François,
  • Rebecca F Grais,
  • Lise Grout,
  • Northan Hurtado,
  • Francisco J Luquero,
  • Klaudia Porten,
  • Laurent Sury,
  • Meguerditch Terzian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
p. e1001544

Abstract

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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.