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Possible nosocomial transmission of measles in unvaccinated children in a Singapore public hospital

Author(s) -

Constance Low,

Koh Cheng Thoon,

Raymond T. P. Lin,

Ariel Chua,

Pengiran Hishamuddin,

Joanne Tay,

Jeffery Cutter

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

western pacific surveillance response journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 2094-7313

pISSN - 2094-7321

DOI - 10.5365/wpsar.2012.3.4.008

Subject(s) - measles , medicine , outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , epidemiology , pediatrics , isolation (microbiology) , vaccination , public health , communicable disease , virology , nursing , electrical engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , engineering

Measles is an acute, highly communicable viral disease, with measles outbreaks usually occurring in settings where there are unvaccinated populations. After being notified of a cluster of five measles cases in a Singapore public hospital in August 2011, the Ministry of Health Singapore conducted an outbreak investigation.

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