A measles outbreak in Croatia, 2008

B Kaic; I Gjenero-Margan; S Kurečić-Filipović; M Muscat

doi:10.2807/ese.14.01.19083-en

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A measles outbreak in Croatia, 2008
B Kaic¹ , I Gjenero-Margan¹ , S Kurečić-Filipović¹ , M Muscat²
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia ² EUVAC.NET hub, Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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B Kaic
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Citation style for this article: Kaic B, Gjenero-Margan I, Kurečić-Filipović S, Muscat M. A measles outbreak in Croatia, 2008. Euro Surveill. 2009;14(1):pii=19083. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.14.01.19083-en Received: 05 Jan 2009

Abstract

We report an outbreak of measles in Croatia, involving 49 cases with onset of symptoms between end of April and June 2008. Cases occurred in Zagreb and Slavonski Brod but investigations indicated a common epidemiological link between these two geographically separate regions.