Exposure to H1 genotype measles virus at an international airport in Japan on 31 July 2016 results in a measles outbreak

Aika Watanabe^{1

2}, Yusuke Kobayashi^{1

3}, Tomoe Shimada⁴, Yuichiro Yahata⁴, Ayako Kobayashi¹, Mizue Kanai^{1

3}, Yushi Hachisu¹, Munehisa Fukusumi^{2

4}, Hajime Kamiya⁴, Takuri Takahashi⁴, Yuzo Arima⁴, Hitomi Kinoshita⁴, Kazuhiko Kanou⁴, Takehito Saitoh⁴, Satoru Arai⁴, Hiroshi Satoh⁴, Hideo Okuno^{2

4}, Saeko Morino^{4

3}, Tamano Matsui⁴, Tomimasa Sunagawa⁴, Keiko Tanaka-Taya⁴, Makoto Takeda⁵, Katsuhiro Komase⁵, Kazunori Oishi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
² Department of Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan.
³ Division of Global Infectious Diseases, Department of Infection and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan.
⁴ Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
⁵ Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Aika Watanabe et al. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2017.

. 2017 Feb 7;8(1):37-39.

doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2016.7.4.007. eCollection 2017 Jan-Mar.

¹ Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
² Department of Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan.
³ Division of Global Infectious Diseases, Department of Infection and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan.
⁴ Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
⁵ Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

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