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Measles is an RNA virus infectious disease mainly seen in children. Despite the availability of an effective vaccine against measles, it remains a health issue in children.
Ali A. Rabaan +17 more
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Background: Nigeria is one of the countries with a high prevalence of measles outbreak in children under 5 years old, despite a history of vaccination. This study aims to determine the prevalence of anti-measles virus IgM and IgG among children under 5 ...
Adekola, Hafeez Aderinsayo +6 more
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Following in the footsteps of smallpox: can we achieve the global eradication of measles? [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Although an effective measles vaccine has been available for almost 40 years, in 2000 there were about 30 million measles infections worldwide and 777,000 measles-related deaths.
Morgan, Oliver WC
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Tumor cell marker PVRL4 (nectin 4) is an epithelial cell receptor for measles virus. [PDF]
Vaccine and laboratory adapted strains of measles virus can use CD46 as a receptor to infect many human cell lines. However, wild type isolates of measles virus cannot use CD46, and they infect activated lymphocytes, dendritic cells, and macrophages via ...
Ryan S Noyce +6 more
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Monitoring the circulation of the measles virus and studying its genetic diversity is an important component of the measles elimination program. A methodological approach to molecular genetic studies and their interpretation in the measles surveillance ...
Tatiana S. Rubalskaia +4 more
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Measles: What we have learned from non-human primate models [PDF]
Studies in non-human primates (NHPs) have been crucial for our understanding of measles as a high impact viral disease of humans. Over a century ago, inoculations of NHPs with filtered secretions from measles patients first identified a virus as the ...
Swart, R.L. (Rik) de
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Measles Virus and Otosclerosis [PDF]
Measles virus (MeV) might play an important role as an environmental stimulus in the etiopathogenesis of otosclerosis. Chronic inflammation was shown in morphologic investigations of otosclerotic foci and MeV N, P, and F proteins were detected within cells of the otosclerotic focus by immunohistochemical investigations. MeV RNA was extracted from fresh-
Hans P. Niedermeyer +3 more
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Measles virus infection diminishes preexisting antibodies that offer protection from other pathogens
The toll of measles on the immune system Many of the deaths attributable to measles virus are caused by secondary infections because the virus infects and functionally impairs immune cells.
M. Mina +17 more
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Detection of measles cases in the Republic of Guinea in 2017–2018
In 2017, WHO reported 596 confirmed measles cases in Guinea Republic connected to the 2016–2017 epidemic outbreak that was stopped after additional immunization (SIA) against measles in two provinces of the country.
I. N. Lavrentieva +4 more
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Analisis Gen Haemagglutinin pada Virus Campak Liar [PDF]
Penyakit Campak disebabkan oleh virus campak yang termasuk genus Morbilivirus dan Family Paramyxoviridae. Penyakit campak masih menjadi masalah kesehatan karena masih ditemukan Kejadian Luar Biasa (KLB) di Indonesia.
Bela, B. (Budiman) +3 more
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