This case study describes a case of measles that was genotyped as being caused by the vaccine strain. The symptoms developed 37 day post-vaccination which exceeds the normal incubation period of 8-12 days for wild-type measles.

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PMID: 

Euro Surveill. 2013 Dec 5 ;18(49). Epub 2013 Dec 5. PMID: 24330942

Abstract Title: 

Case of vaccine-associated measles five weeks post-immunisation, British Columbia, Canada, October 2013.

Abstract: 

We describe a case of vaccine-associated measles in a two-year-old patient from British Columbia, Canada, in October 2013, who received her first dose of measles-containing vaccine 37 days prior to onset of prodromal symptoms. Identification of this delayed vaccine-associated case occurred in the context of an outbreak investigation of a measles cluster.

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