About the Authors

Jasminka Nedeljković

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Vaccine and Sera "Torlak", Belgrade, Serbia

Vesna Kovačević-Jovanović

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Vaccine and Sera "Torlak", Belgrade, Serbia

Vesna Milošević

Affiliation Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Novi Sad, Serbia

Zorica Šeguljev

Affiliation Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Novi Sad, Serbia

Vladimir Petrovic

Affiliation Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Novi Sad, Serbia

Claude P. Muller

Claude.Muller@LiH.lu

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunity, WHO-EURO Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Luxembourg Institute of Health (former Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé) / Laboratoire National de Santé, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Judith M. Hübschen

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunity, WHO-EURO Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Luxembourg Institute of Health (former Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé) / Laboratoire National de Santé, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JN VKJ. Performed the experiments: JMH VM JN. Analyzed the data: JMH JN VKJ ZŠ VP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMH JN VM. Wrote the paper: JMH CPM JN VKJ. Management of the outbreak and collection of clinical and epidemiological data: ZŠ VP.