Investigation of measles IgM-seropositive cases of febrile rash illnesses in the absence of documented measles virus transmission, State of São Paulo, Brazil, 2000-2004 Investigação dos casos de doenças febris exantemáticas com IgM reagente contra o sarampo na ausência de transmissão documentada do vírus do sarampo, Estado de São Paulo, 2000-2004

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Flávia Helena Ciccone, Telma Regina Marques Pinto Carvalhanas, Ana Maria Sardinha Afonso, Brendan Flannery, Eliseu Alves Waldman
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2010
• Subjects: Sarampo; Vigilância por síndrome; Doença exantemática; Measles; Syndromic surveillance; Rash illness; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822010000300004; https://doaj.org/article/72f47e4b8e034ebdb83ca6c7c5b2c73d

INTRODUCTION: To review measles IgM-positive cases of febrile rash illnesses in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, over the five-year period following interruption of measles virus transmission. METHODS: We reviewed 463 measles IgM-positive cases of febrile rash illness in the State of São Paulo, from...