DE Griffin - Viral immunology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Measles remains an important cause of child morbidity and mortality worldwide despite the availability of a safe and efficacious vaccine. The current measles virus (MeV) vaccine was …
DE Griffin - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
DNA viruses often persist in the body of their host, becoming latent and recurring many months or years later. By contrast, most RNA viruses cause acute infections that are cleared …
This report is a compendium of all current recommendations for the prevention of measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), and mumps. The report presents the recent …
Measles remains a leading vaccine-preventable cause of child mortality worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where almost half of the estimated 454,000 measles …
Measles is an acute systemic viral infection with immune system interactions that play essential roles in multiple stages of infection and disease. Measles virus (MeV) infection …
DE Griffin - Immunological reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Measles is an important cause of child mortality that has a seemingly paradoxical interaction with the immune system. In most individuals, the immune response is successful in …
DE Griffin, WH Lin, CH Pan - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Measles remains one of the most important causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide with the greatest burden in the youngest children. Most acute measles deaths are …
Despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine, in 2018, around 350,000 measles cases were reported worldwide, which resulted in an estimate of 142,300 deaths from …
T Duke, CS Mgone - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Measles is the most frequent cause of vaccine-preventable childhood deaths. Infants younger than the recommended age for vaccination are susceptible to the disease, and in …