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Response to Vaccination against Mumps in Medical Students: Two Doses Are Needed

Viruses, 2021
Mumps is a vaccine-preventable infectious disease diffuse worldwide. The implementation of mumps vaccination reduced largely the spread of infection. On 11,327 Medical School students the prevalence of mumps positive antibodies was evaluated according to
Andrea Trevisan, Angelo Moretto, Chiara Bertoncello, Annamaria Nicolli, Stefano Maso, Maria Luisa Scapellato, Paola Mason   +6 more
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Close the gap for routine mumps vaccination in Japan

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease. Because the mumps vaccine can cause aseptic meningitis in rare cases, this vaccine is not routine in Japan. This has led to low vaccine coverage and severe disease burden in Japan.
Taito Kitano
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Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States. [PDF]

, 2020
Unusually large outbreaks of mumps across the United States in 2016 and 2017 raised questions about the extent of mumps circulation and the relationship between these and prior outbreaks.
Bankamp, Bettina, Barreira, Paul, Burns, Meagan, Byrne, Elizabeth H, Chak, Bridget, Fitzgerald, Susan, Fleming, Stephen, Gharib, Soheyla, Grad, Yonatan H, Hennigan, Scott, Krasilnikova, Lydia A, Lett, Susan, Lewnard, Joseph A, MacInnis, Bronwyn L, Madoff, Lawrence C, Matranga, Christian B, McNall, Rebecca J, Metsky, Hayden C, Park, Daniel J, Piantadosi, Anne, Qu, James, Rota, Paul A, Sabeti, Pardis C, Sabina, Brandon, Schaffner, Stephen F, Shah, Rickey R, Siddle, Katherine J, Smole, Sandra, Wohl, Shirlee, Yozwiak, Nathan L   +29 more
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Mumps Vaccines: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Five decades have passed since the first mumps vaccine was licensed. Over this period, a resurgence of mumps infections has been recorded worldwide. Although global mumps infections have been controlled through vaccination, outbreaks are still on the ...
Iman Almansour
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Mumps Outbreaks in Vaccinated Populations—Is It Time to Re-assess the Clinical Efficacy of Vaccines?

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
History illustrates the remarkable public health impact of mass vaccination, by dramatically improving life expectancy and reducing the burden of infectious diseases and co-morbidities worldwide. It has been perceived that if an individual adhered to the
Anna R. Connell, Jeff Connell, T. Ronan Leahy, T. Ronan Leahy, Jaythoon Hassan, Jaythoon Hassan   +5 more
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Mumps serological surveillance following 10 years of a one-dose mumps-containing-vaccine policy in Fujian Province, China

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Background Since 2008, Fujian province provided measles-rubella (MR) vaccine at 8 months followed by measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine at 18 months a one-dose mumps-containing-vaccine (MuCV) schedule.
Dong Li, Hairong Zhang, Na You, Zhifei Chen, Xiuhui Yang, Hangsu Zhang, Yong Zhou, Ningxuan Zheng, Weiyi Pan   +8 more
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Genetic Analysis Reveals Differences in CD8⁺ T Cell Epitope Regions That May Impact Cross-Reactivity of Vaccine-Induced T Cells against Wild-Type Mumps Viruses

Vaccines, 2021
Nowadays, mumps is re-emerging in highly vaccinated populations. Waning of vaccine-induced immunity plays a role, but antigenic differences between vaccine and mumps outbreak strains could also contribute to reduced vaccine effectiveness.
Patricia Kaaijk, Maarten E. Emmelot, Jeroen Kerkhof, Cécile A.C.M. van Els, Hugo D. Meiring, Jelle de Wit, Rogier Bodewes   +6 more
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The Concordance between Mumps and Rubella Sero-Positivity among the Israeli Population in 2015

Vaccines, 2022
Mumps and rubella are vaccine-preventable viral diseases through the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine, administered at 12 months and again at 6 years.
Ravit Bassal, Tamy Shohat, Tal Levin, Rakefet Pando, Eilat Shinar, Doron Amichay, Mira Barak, Anat Ben-Dor, Adina Bar-Haim, Ella Mendelson, Dani Cohen, Lital Keinan-Boker, Victoria Indenbaum   +12 more
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An Epidemic of Mumps Reported in a Peripheral Charitable Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease
Mumps is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease. It is one of the oldest human illnesses known to humans. Mumps is caused by paramyxovirus, which is a single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus. It is a self-limited illness.
Sreepriya Lalitha, Minnie R
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Mandatory vaccinations in European countries, undocumented information, false news and the impact on vaccination uptake: the position of the Italian pediatric society. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: High rates of vaccination coverage are important in preventing infectious diseases. Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some Countries adopted to protect the community when vaccination coverage is not satisfactory ...
Bozzola E, Bozzola M, Corsello G, Russo R, Spina G, Villani A   +5 more
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