Understanding the transmission characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is essential to designing effective mitigation strategies. The …

Measles vaccination schedules and targets of herd immunity have been designed according
to the paradigm that the vaccine is as protective as natural infection, and the virus has …

In an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, breakthrough infections (ie infections in
individuals with a history of vaccination) were common. The objective of this study was to …

Importance Measles cases and outbreaks continue to occur in the United States after the
introduction of measles from endemic settings. Objective To discern the factors associated …

Dynamical models, commonly used in infectious disease epidemiology, are formal
mathematical representations of time-changing systems or processes. For many chronic …

Measles is a highly transmissible systemic viral infection associated with substantial
mortality primarily due to secondary infections. Measles induces lifelong immunity to …

Despite efforts to improve surveillance and vaccination coverage, measles virus (MeV)
continues to cause outbreaks also in high-income countries. As the reference laboratory of …

Historically, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases have caused large, deadly, and
expensive multinational outbreaks. Often outbreak investigations aim to identify who infected …

Measles virus, a member of the genus Morbillivirus, is highly contagious and still shows
considerable mortality with over 100 000 deaths annually, although efficient attenuated …

Introductions of measles containing vaccines, initially in the United States in 1963, the
United Kingdom in 1968, and globally thereafter have caused measles cases to plunge …