"Efficacy of Measles Vaccine during the 1993 Measles Epidemic in Korea."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, "Immunization to eliminate measles is recommended at 15 months of age with the option of giving vaccine at 6 to 9 months of age during measles outbreaks in Korea. Because of the recent resurgence of measles and concern about the possibility of reduced vaccine efficacy caused by genomic differences between vaccine virus and contemporary wild measles viruses, we conducted a measles vaccine efficacy study involving children with household exposure ages 1 to 5 years during measles outbreak that had occurred [in] 1993 in Seoul and Seong-nam city, with the demographic analysis of patients brought...

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