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Despite the availability of a safe and efficient live attenuated measles vaccine, which eliminated the fear of the highly contagious disease in industrialized countries, measles remains a severe disease in developing countries (see chapter by Clements and Cutts, this volume)
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Liebert, U.G., Finke, D. (1995). Measles Virus Infections in Rodents. In: ter Meulen, V., Billeter, M.A. (eds) Measles Virus. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78621-1_10
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