Risk Factors Associated With Secondary Measles Transmission in Index Cases
Yuki Takahashi, Hideo Tanaka, Toshiyuki Shibata, Chisato Tanikake, Takashi Moriwaki, Masaya Miyazono, Sayuri Matsumoto, Masaru Kinoshita, Hitomi Nagai, Chika Shirai, Yoshihiro Takayama, Megumi Okada, Yuko Tsuda, Ayako Hazama, Toshitake Ohara, Hideki Yoshida, Takako Kurata, Daiki Kanbayashi, Chie Tan · 2026
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Description
A large team of co-authors presents a study dated two thousand twenty-six on what makes a measles case likely to spread the virus. Measles is highly contagious, yet little quantitative work exists on which first, or index, cases pass it on. The team studied an outbreak in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
They collected one hundred five index cases reported between late two thousand eighteen and early two thousand nineteen, with nearly ten thousand close contacts. Seventy-two secondary cases appeared. Attack rates among contacts were compared by the index case's vaccination history and by whether the illness was classic or modified measles, with adjusted analysis for other factors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuki Takahashi, Hideo Tanaka, Toshiyuki Shibata, Chisato Tanikake, Takashi Moriwaki, Masaya Miyazono, Sayuri Matsumoto, Masaru Kinoshita, Hitomi Nagai, Chika Shirai, Yoshihiro Takayama, Megumi Okada, Yuko Tsuda, Ayako Hazama, Toshitake Ohara, Hideki Yoshida, Takako Kurata, Daiki Kanbayashi, Chie Tan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |