Measles and rubella are major vaccine-preventable causes of child mortality and disability.
They have been eliminated from the Americas and some other regions have also come …

Abstract Background The WHO European Region (EUR) has adopted the goal of eliminating
measles and rubella but individual countries perform differently in achieving this goal …

Background Since January 2016, a resurgence of measles in Romania has led to the third
measles epidemic in the past 12 years; 64 deaths have been confirmed so far–the highest …

The eleven member states of World Health Organization South-East Asia Region committed
to eliminate measles by 2020. In phased manner, Government of India is working on this …

The length of the single stranded, negative sense RNA genome of measles virus (MeV) is
highly conserved at 15,894 nucleotides (nt). MeVs can be grouped into 24 genotypes based …

Measles is an infectious disease caused by Morbillivirus, with a secondary attack rate in
excess of 80%, that usually affects children (1). However, multiple outbreaks of the disease …

Methods: Maharashtra State Health Agencies investigated 98 suspected outbreaks between
January-December 2013 in the 20 districts. Altogether, 491 serum samples were received …

The Government of India is accepted to participate in the measles elimination and rubella
control goal 2020, hence genetic characterization of measles viruses (MeV) becomes …

The neutralizing antibody (Nt-Ab) response to vaccine and wild-type measles viruses (MeV)
was studied in suspected measles cases reported during the years 2012–2016. The …

Objective To map genomic diversity of Measles virus (MeV) isolates collected during 2009–
2017 from ten states of India. Methods Genome sequencing of Indian isolates and …