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A Lesson from a Measles Outbreak among Healthcare Workers in a Single Hospital in South Korea: The Importance of Knowing the Prevalence of Susceptibility

Vaccines, 2023
Background: Despite the high vaccination coverage rate, in-hospital transmission of measles continues to occur in South Korea. We present a measles outbreak in which two healthcare workers (HCWs) with presumptive evidence of measles immunity were ...
Sungim Choi, Jae-Woo Chung, Yun Jung Chang, Eun Jung Lim, Sun Hee Moon, Han Ho Do, Jeong Hun Lee, Sung-Min Cho, Bum Sun Kwon, Yoon-Seok Chung, Seong Yeon Park   +10 more
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Measles in a measles-eliminated country: A case report of a measles-infected postpartum mother and infant in Japan

IDCases, 2021
Japan has maintained measles elimination status since 2015. However, sporadic outbreaks of measles have been continuously reported. Here, we report a case of a measles-infected postpartum mother and infant in Japan.
Haruki Mito, Ryota Hase, Nozomu Oshima, Hiroyuki Ikeda   +3 more
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Measles outbreaks in the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy, during 2016

Microbiologia Medica, 2017
Background and aim. Despite the availability of a vaccine,measles continues to be endemic in Italy, where an increase of cases was reported during 2016. This study describes the measles outbreaks in Emilia-Romagna Region (ERR), one of the Italian regions
Giulia Piccirilli, Angela Chiereghin, Gabriele Turello, Roberta Zuntini, Silvia Felici, Melissa Baggieri, Loredana Nicoletti, Fabio Magurano, Gabriella Frasca, Maria Grazia Pascucci, Liliana Gabrielli, Tiziana Lazzarotto   +11 more
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Case based measles surveillance in Pune: evidence to guide current and future measles control and elimination efforts in India.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundAccording to WHO estimates, 35% of global measles deaths in 2011 occurred in India. In 2013, India committed to a goal of measles elimination by 2020.
Anindya Sekhar Bose, Hamid Jafari, Stephen Sosler, Arvinder Pal Singh Narula, V M Kulkarni, Nalini Ramamurty, John Oommen, Ramesh S Jadi, R V Banpel, Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo   +9 more
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Primate Erythroparvovirus 1 Infection in Patients with Hematological Disorders

Pathogens, 2022
Primate erythroparvovirus 1, commonly referred to as Parvovirus B19 (B19V), is a DNA virus that normally results in a mild childhood infection called “erythema infectiosum”.
Stefka Krumova, Ivona Andonova, Radostina Stefanova, Polina Miteva, Galina Nenkova, Judith M. Hübschen   +5 more
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The measles epidemic trend over the past 30 years in a central district in Shanghai, China.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundMeasles vaccination over the past 50 years has greatly reduced the incidence of measles. However, measles among migrants and the resulting changes in epidemiological characteristics have brought new challenges to the elimination of measles.
Jie Gao, Bing Shen, JianJing Xiong, Yihan Lu, Qingwu Jiang   +4 more
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Genomic tools for post-elimination measles molecular epidemiology using Canadian surveillance data from 2018–2020

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionMeasles is caused by the highly infectious measles virus, MeV, for which there is an effective vaccine. Monitoring of progress of measles elimination requires enhanced surveillance and tracking of MeV strains, including documenting the ...
Joanne Hiebert, Vanessa Zubach, Helene Schulz, Alberto Severini   +3 more
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Preliminary Study on Type I Interferon as a Mucosal Adjuvant for Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus F Protein

Vaccines
Background: Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) imposes a significant disease burden on infants and the elderly. Intranasal immunization using attenuated live vaccines and certain vector vaccines against HRSV has completed phase II clinical trials ...
Hongqiao Hu, Li Zhang, Lei Cao, Jie Jiang, Yuqing Shi, Hong Guo, Yang Wang, Hai Li, Yan Zhang   +8 more
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PROBLEMS TOWARDS MEASLES ELIMINATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2016
Introduction of live measles vaccines into daily practice resulted in a pronounced reduction of measles morbidity in many countries, that allowed WHO to develop the measles eradication program.
VA. .. Aieshkin, N. T. Tikhonova, A. G. Gerasimova, O. V. Tsvirkun, S. V. Shulga, E. B. Ezhlova, A. A. Melnikova   +6 more
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Measles moves fast [PDF]

Measles moves fast.More than 60% of the 21.5 million children who did not receive one dose of measles vaccine in 2013 came from only 6 countries:India: 6.4M | Nigeria: 2.7M | Pakistan: 1.7M | Ethiopia: 1.1M | Indonesia: 0.7M | DR Congo: 0.7MMost deaths ...

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