Immunity against Measles among Vaccinated School going Children in Zahedan, Southeast of Iran
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Immunity against measles among vaccinated school going children in Zahedan, southeast of Iran.
Measles is an important childhood disease and an acute viral infection, which is very contagious and recovery from it is the rule. But serious complications of the respiratory and central nervous system may occur. Measles can be prevented with live, attenuated vaccine. In our country (Iran), despite the use of vaccine since 1976, we are still having local epidemics especially in the children ag...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0255-0857
DOI: 10.1016/s0255-0857(21)02541-x