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Euro Surveill. Spotlight on measles 2010: An ongoing measles outbreak in the district of Neamt, Romania, August ?September 2010

Giuseppe

Emeritus
Spotlight on measles 2010: An ongoing measles outbreak in the district of Neamt, Romania, August ?September 2010 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)


[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19682">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]

Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 40, 07 October 2010

Rapid communications

Spotlight on measles 2010: An ongoing measles outbreak in the district of Neamt, Romania, August ?September 2010

A Stanescu 1,2, M Muscat 2,3, A Romaniuc 4, R Pipirigeanu 5, E Lupulescu 6, G Necula 6, M Lazar 6, G Molnar 7, A Pistol 1
1. National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania
2. These authors contributed equally to this work
3. EUVAC.NET hub, Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
4. National Institute of Public Health, Regional Centre of Public Health ? Iasi, Romania
5. Public Health Authority of the district of Neamt, Romania
6. National Institute of Research and Development for Microbiology and Immunology ?Cantacuzino? ? National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Bucharest, Romania
7. Ministry of Health, Bucharest, Romania

Citation style for this article: Stanescu A, Muscat M, Romaniuc A, Pipirigeanu R, Lupulescu E, Necula G, Lazar M, Molnar G, Pistol A. Spotlight on measles 2010: An ongoing measles outbreak in the district of Neamt, Romania, August ?September 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(40):pii=19682. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19682

Date of submission: 01 October 2010


We report an outbreak of measles that has been ongoing in the district of Neamt, Romania, since 22 August 2010. As of 21 September, 17 of 21 suspected cases have been laboratory-confirmed and there was one measles-related fatality.

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