Measles transmission among adults with spread to children during an outbreak: Implications for measles elimination in China, 2014

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• 作者：Chao Ma¹ ; Shaohong Yan¹ ; Qiru Su¹ ; Lixin Hao ; Shaopei Tang ; Zhijie An ; Yulong He ; Guangfei Fan ; Lance Rodewald ; Huaqing Wang ; ^{wanghq@chinacdc.cn}
• 关键词：Measles ; Adult ; Transmission ; Elimination ; China
• 刊名：Vaccine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：12 December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：34
• 期：51
• 页码：6539-6544
• 全文大小：824 K
• 卷排序：34

文摘

There are few studies that describe adult measles outbreaks in community settings. Virus transmission was initially from adult-to-adult, followed by adult-to-child. Adult susceptibility to measles is a potential threat to measles elimination in China. The importance of targeting susceptible adults during outbreak response immunization is highlighted.