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SUBMITTER: Toikkanen SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4962191 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
International journal of environmental research and public health 20160630 7
The number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany has increased rapidly since 2014 and cases of vaccine-preventable diseases at reception centres were reported. Asylum seekers 12 years and older arriving in Lower Saxony were serologically screened for antibodies against measles, rubella and varicella between November 2014 and October 2015. We calculated the seroprevalence from the screening data by disease, country of origin and age group and compared them to literature-based herd immunity thresh ...[more]