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. 2019 Sep 2;26(6):taz046.
doi: 10.1093/jtm/taz046.

The rise in travel-associated measles infections-GeoSentinel, 2015-2019

Kristina M Angelo  1 , Michael Libman  2 , Philippe Gautret  3 , Elizabeth Barnett  4 , Martin P Grobusch  5 , Stefan H F Hagmann  6 , Federico Gobbi  7 , Eli Schwartz  8 , Perry J J van Genderen  9 , Hilmer Asgeirsson  10 , Davidson H Hamer  11   12 ; GeoSentinel Surveillance Network
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The rise in travel-associated measles infections-GeoSentinel, 2015-2019

Kristina M Angelo et al. J Travel Med. .
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Conflict of Interest

DHH: Receives some salary funding from GeoSentinel.

All remaining authors have no conflicts of interest.

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Number of measles cases reported to GeoSentinel by year, 2015–2019 (n=36) *Twenty-one GeoSentinel sites provided measles cases from 2015–2019; one site was added in 2016 (1 record reported in 2018) and two sites were added in 2017 (3 records reported in 2018).
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