Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
E Kopel (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, Z Amitai<SUP>1</SUP>, M Savion<SUP>1</SUP>, Y Aboudy<SUP>2</SUP>, E Mendelson<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,4</SUP>, R Sheffer<SUP>1</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Kopel E, Amitai Z, Savion M, Aboudy Y, Mendelson E, Sheffer R. Ongoing African measles virus genotype outbreak in Tel Aviv district since April, Israel, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(37)
ii=20272. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20272
Date of submission: 03 September 2012 <HR>A measles outbreak is affecting the Tel Aviv district, Israel, since April 2012. As of 10 September, 99 cases with B3 genotype were confirmed, including 63 (64%) migrants of Eritrean and Sudanese origin. The mean age of migrant and non-migrant cases was 6.0?9.6 and 30.2?24.2 years, respectively (p<0.001). The majority of both migrant and non-migrant cases was unvaccinated. This is the second African measles B3 genotype outbreak within the World Health Organization European region in 2012.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 37, 13 September 2012
Rapid communications
Ongoing African measles virus genotype outbreak in Tel Aviv district since April, Israel, 2012
Rapid communications
Ongoing African measles virus genotype outbreak in Tel Aviv district since April, Israel, 2012
E Kopel (
- Tel Aviv District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Tel Aviv, Israel
- National Centre for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, The Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer, Israel
- Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, The Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer, Israel
- School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation style for this article: Kopel E, Amitai Z, Savion M, Aboudy Y, Mendelson E, Sheffer R. Ongoing African measles virus genotype outbreak in Tel Aviv district since April, Israel, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(37)
ii=20272. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20272 Date of submission: 03 September 2012 <HR>A measles outbreak is affecting the Tel Aviv district, Israel, since April 2012. As of 10 September, 99 cases with B3 genotype were confirmed, including 63 (64%) migrants of Eritrean and Sudanese origin. The mean age of migrant and non-migrant cases was 6.0?9.6 and 30.2?24.2 years, respectively (p<0.001). The majority of both migrant and non-migrant cases was unvaccinated. This is the second African measles B3 genotype outbreak within the World Health Organization European region in 2012.