Assessment of the Status of Measles Elimination in the United States, 2001–2014

Authors :: Gregory S. Wallace
Amy Parker Fiebelkorn
Ben Lopman
Prabasaj Paul
Paul A. Gastañaduy
Manoj Gambhir
Susan B. Redd
Source :: American Journal of Epidemiology
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Abstract: We assessed the status of measles elimination in the United States using outbreak notification data. Measles transmissibility was assessed by estimation of the reproduction number, R, the average number of secondary cases per infection, using 4 methods; elimination requires maintaining R at

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