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Measles returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new predicament amid the COVID‐19 crisis
2021; Wiley; Volume: 93; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/jmv.27137
ISSN1096-9071
AutoresAnmol Mohan, Rabiu Aishat Temitope, Sude Çavdaroğlu, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa, Shoaib Ahmad, Mohammad Yasir Essar,
Tópico(s)Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
ResumoJournal of Medical VirologyVolume 93, Issue 10 p. 5691-5693 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Measles returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new predicament amid the COVID-19 crisis Anmol Mohan, Anmol Mohan orcid.org/0000-0002-8312-2884 Department of Medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PakistanSearch for more papers by this authorRabiu Aishat Temitope, Rabiu Aishat Temitope Department of Public Health, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kwara State University, NigeriaSearch for more papers by this authorSude Çavdaroğlu, Sude Çavdaroğlu Department of Medicine, Maltepe University, Istanbul, TurkeySearch for more papers by this authorMohammad Mehedi Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-889X Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, BangladeshSearch for more papers by this authorAna Carla dos Santos Costa, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa orcid.org/0000-0001-8486-7899 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilSearch for more papers by this authorShoaib Ahmad, Shoaib Ahmad orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-7724 Department of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, PakistanSearch for more papers by this authorMohammad Yasir Essar, Corresponding Author Mohammad Yasir Essar [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-7619 Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan Correspondence Mohammad Yasir Essar, Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, 1001 Kabul, Afghanistan. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Anmol Mohan, Anmol Mohan orcid.org/0000-0002-8312-2884 Department of Medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PakistanSearch for more papers by this authorRabiu Aishat Temitope, Rabiu Aishat Temitope Department of Public Health, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kwara State University, NigeriaSearch for more papers by this authorSude Çavdaroğlu, Sude Çavdaroğlu Department of Medicine, Maltepe University, Istanbul, TurkeySearch for more papers by this authorMohammad Mehedi Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-889X Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, BangladeshSearch for more papers by this authorAna Carla dos Santos Costa, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa orcid.org/0000-0001-8486-7899 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilSearch for more papers by this authorShoaib Ahmad, Shoaib Ahmad orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-7724 Department of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, PakistanSearch for more papers by this authorMohammad Yasir Essar, Corresponding Author Mohammad Yasir Essar [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-7619 Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan Correspondence Mohammad Yasir Essar, Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, 1001 Kabul, Afghanistan. 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