Factors Associated With Measles Transmission in the United States During the Postelimination Era.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Measles cases and outbreaks continue to occur in the United States after the introduction of measles from endemic settings.

Objective

To discern the factors associated with measles transmission in the United States after measles had been eliminated.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was conducted from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2017, in the United States among US residents and international visitors with confirmed measles. A maximum likelihood algorithm that uses the observed dates of rash onset and the known distribution of the serial interval (time between symptom onset in related consecutive cases) was applied to outbreak notification data to estimate the effective reproduction number (R), or the mean number of new infect

SUBMITTER: Gastanaduy PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6865326 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature