Epidemiological Outbreaks of Measles Virus in Kazakhstan during 2015

This study involved epidemiological surveillance of the measles virus (MV) in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan during 2015–2016. We detected MV genotype D8 in this season of measles outbreak. A total of 2,341 cases were registered and 19 were identified by genotyping. Sixteen of these samples were attributed to subgroup A of genotype D8, while 3 imported cases were represented by genotypes B3 and H1