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. 2023 Jun 29:54:101164.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101164. eCollection 2023 Sep.

The recent measles outbreak in South African Region is due to low vaccination coverage. What should we do to mitigate it?

Malik Olatunde Oduoye  1   2 , Varisha Zuhair  3 , Andrew Marbell  4 , Gbolahan Deji Olatunji  5 , Ali Aamir Khan  6 , Alia Farooq  7 , Abdullahi Temitope Jamiu  8   9 , Karim Arif Karim  10
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The recent measles outbreak in South African Region is due to low vaccination coverage. What should we do to mitigate it?

Malik Olatunde Oduoye et al. New Microbes New Infect. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Measles; Menace; Mitigation; Public health; South Africa.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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