Public Health
Volume 124, Issue 1 , Pages 24-27 , January 2010

Completeness of suspected measles reporting in a southern district of Nigeria

  • C.C. Odega

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Medical Statistics and Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +234 8034631324.
    • ,
  • A.A. Fatiregun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Medical Statistics and Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
    • ,
  • G.K. Osagbemi

      Affiliations

    • University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Received 4 May 2009 ,Revised 22 October 2009 ,Accepted 17 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.11.004

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