Risk factors for measles mortality and the importance of decentralized case management during an unusually large measles epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013

In 2013, a large measles epidemic occurred in the Aketi Health Zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We conducted a two-stage, retrospective cluster survey to estimate the attack rate, the case fatality rate, and the measles-specific mortality rate during the epidemic. 1424 households containing...

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Autores principales: Gignoux, Etienne, Polonsky, Jonathan, Ciglenecki, Iza, Bichet, Mathieu, Coldiron, Matthew, Thuambe Lwiyo, Enoch, Akonda, Innocent, Serafini, Micaela, Porten, Klaudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29538437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194276

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