1. Congenital rubella syndrome and rubella in Vellore, South India.
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Chandy S, Abraham AM, Jana AK, Agarwal I, Kekre A, Korula G, Selvaraj K, and Muliyil JP
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, India epidemiology, Infant, Male, Rubella prevention & control, Rubella Syndrome, Congenital prevention & control, Rubella Vaccine therapeutic use, Young Adult, Rubella epidemiology, Rubella Syndrome, Congenital epidemiology
- Abstract
Rubella, a mild, vaccine-preventable disease, can manifest as congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), a devastating disease of the fetus. To emphasize the inadequacy of the existing rubella vaccination programme in India, we evaluated epidemiological evidence of rubella virus activity with data available from a tertiary-care centre. The proportion of suspected CRS cases that were laboratory confirmed increased from 4% in 2000 to 11% in 2008. During the same period, 329 clinically suspected postnatal rubella cases were tested of which 65 (20%) were laboratory confirmed. Of women (n=770) of childbearing age, 12·5% were susceptible to rubella.
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- 2011
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