Jia, Haimei
Ma, Chao
Lu, Mengting
Fu, Jianping
Rodewald, Lance E.
Su, Qiru
Wang, Huaqin
Hao, Lixin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Funding to support the field investigation activities described in this study came from national, provincial and local Centers for Disease Control and prevention.
Article History
Received: 25 May 2017
Accepted: 5 January 2018
First Online: 12 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Outbreak investigations are considered public health emergencies, and are considered by China CDC’s Ethical Review Committee to be exempt from IRB review. Individual identifying data were not retained in analytic data sets and individual identifying information is not included in the manuscript. Blood specimens obtained during the investigation were obtained as part of standard procedures for investigation of a suspected measles outbreak.
: Written, informed consent was obtained from the primary case for publication of their individual clinical data.
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