Measles in Italy: Viral strains and crossing borders

After the large epidemic of measles in 2017, with 5404 notified cases and 4347 confirmed cases, between January 1 and June 30, 2018, 2029 cases of measles were reported to the Italian national measles and rubella surveillance system. Of these, 1516 (75%) were laboratory-confirmed in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, as described previously (Istituto Superiore di Sanit à (ISS), 2018a; Magurano et al., 2015). The outbreak reached its peak in the month of April 2018, with 466 cases (Figure 1), and showed slight signs of a turnaround at the time of writing this article.

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - November 13, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Fabio Magurano, Melissa Baggieri, Francesca Mazzilli, Paola Bucci, Antonella Marchi, Loredana Nicoletti, MoRoNet Group Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research