Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Minetti A Bopp C Fermon F François G Grais RF Grout L Hurtado N Luquero FJ Porten K Sury L Terzian M
PLoS medicine 2013 Nov ; 10(11); e1001544. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544. Epub 2013 11 05

Abstract

Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.