Imported Measles and Implications for Its Elimination in Taiwan

Wen-Yueh Cheng
Chen-Fu Yang
Yu-Ting Hou
Shih-Chuan Wang
Hsiu-Li Chang
Hsien-Ya Chiu
En-Tzu Wang
Ho-Sheng Wu

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Publication date

August 2011

DOI

10.3201/eid1708.100800

Publisher

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Journal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Abstract

During November 2008–May 2009, an outbreak of 53 measles cases occurred in Taiwan. Of these, 3 cases were sporadic, and the other 50 cases could be grouped into 8 clusters by genetic analysis. We determined 7 H1 genotypes linked to importation and 1 G3 genotype linked to an untraceable source

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