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Assessment about the measles elimination from cases and outbreaks, 2002-2007 - Assessment about the measles elimination -  

So, Jae Sung (Division of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control and National Immunization Program)
Go, Un Yeong (Division of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control and National Immunization Program)
Oh, Hyun Kyung (Division of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control and National Immunization Program)
Baek, Soo Jin (Division of Infectious Disease Surveillance Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Lee, Jong Koo (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics / v.52, no.1, 2009 , pp. 68-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose : We assessed about the measles elimination in Korea according to analyzing national data on measles cases for 2002-2007. Methods : We estimated the effective reproduction number according to the proportion of imported cases and outbreak size. Results : Eleven cases, thirteen cases, six cases, six cases, 25 cases (60.0% were linked to 1 outbreak of 15 cases), and 180 cases (55.6% were linked 11 outbreaks of 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 9, 9, 12, 50 cases) were reported in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, respectively. In 2002-2007, R is 0.95 by imported case and 0.43 by outbreak sizes. In 2007, multiple chains of transmission occurred in hospital. Most of cases were below 4 ages and unvaccinated. We didn't find most of the infection source. Conclusion : We should prevent outbreak of susceptibility pocket like nosocomial infection, conduct reliable routine surveillance and epidemiological investigation to solve a problem of the measles elimination.
Keywords
Elimination; Measles; Outbreak; Reproduction number;
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