Introduction 3. Measles virus and its replication 3.1. Virus and viral proteins 3.2. Cellular
receptors 3.3. Sequence and antigenic variation 4. Measles and its complications 4.1. Virus …

Measles, a highly contagious viral disease, is a major childhood killer in developing
countries, accounting for almost 1 million deaths every year globally. Measles virus normally …

Measles is one of the most important diseases of mankind, which is so highly contagious
and evokes such persistent immunity that the virus cannot be sustained in a population of …

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 …

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. With 1 million deaths reported in 1996,
measles was the leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths. However, in recent years …

Measles is an eradicable disease. As in the case of smallpox, humans are the only natural
host and the epidemic spread of both these diseases can only be maintained as a chain of …

Measles is a highly contagious disease, which was responsible for high infant mortality
before the advent of an effective vaccine in 1963. In immunocompetent individuals, measles …

The development of an attenuated measles virus vaccine gave us a tool to combat a disease
which has ravaged the child population throughout the centuries. Three decades later the …

Measles was an inevitable infection during the human development with substantial degree
of morbidity and mortality. The severity of measles virus (MV) infection was largely contained …

Although the introduction of live attenuated measles vaccines in industrialized countries in
the 1960s has largely contributed to the control of measles, the disease remains a major …