Table. Characteristics of 6 measles case-patients and 2 control patients with vitamin A deficiency, Roma community, France*.

Participant	Age, y/ sex	Signs and symptoms	Defining characteristics	Vitamin A level, mg/L†	Outcome	No. days in hospital
Case-patient 1	21/M	Rash, meningo-encephalitis	Positive PCR results for pharyngeal and urinary samples	0.31	Recovered	12
Case-patient 2	25/M	Rash, hepatitis, keratitis	Positive PCR result for pharyngeal and urinary samples	0.20	Recovered	4
Case-patient 3	26/M	Rash	Positive PCR result for pharyngeal sample	0.27	Recovered	2
Case-patient 4	22/M	Rash	Positive PCR result for urinary, nasal, and pharyngeal samples; Positive serologic test result	0.27	Recovered	3
Case-patient 5	15/M	Rash	Positive PCR result for nasal sample	0.16	Recovered	1
Case-patient 6	17/M	Rash, hepatitis, Koplik spots	Clinical signs	0.34	Recovered	2
Control 1	34/F	None	NA	0.46	NA	NA
Control 2	12/M	None	NA	0.36	NA	NA

*Control participants did not have measles. NA, not applicable.
†Reference range 0.5–0.8 mg/L.