Monitoring progress towards the elimination of measles in Iran: supporting evidence from 2014 to 2016 by application of measles outbreaks data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To achieve the goal of measles eradication, all WHO member countries should continuously monitor the status of measles elimination. This work aims to characterize measles outbreaks in Iran from 2014 to 2016 and calculate the effective reproduction number, given that the country has recently eliminated measles.

Methods

Effective Reproduction Number (R) was estimated to achieve the goal of measles elimination using measles related outbreaks data and epidemiological data from the cases linked to imported cases. Three methods were used to estimate R includes (i) proportion of cases imported, (ii) distribution of outbreak size and (iii) distribution of outbreak generations.

Results

Of the 153 outbreaks occurring during the three years of the study, 29 outbreaks

SUBMITTER: Piri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547504 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature