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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Purpose: The Central African Republic (CAF) has not yet introduced immunization against rubella in its national immunization program. In addition, neither rubella nor congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) are integrated into the epidemiological surveillance ...
M. Pagonendji +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundRubella virus infection mainly causes illness with mild fever, rash, and lymphadenopathy in children; however, the clinical characteristics of adult rubella are not well-known.MethodsAn observational study was conducted to compare the ...
Hidetoshi Nomoto +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Rubella infection in early pregnancy can lead to miscarriages, fetal death, or birth of an infant with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). In Cameroon, like in many developing countries, rubella surveillance is not well-established.
Nadesh Ashukem Taku +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 South Africa has yet to introduce a rubella-containing vaccine (RCV) into its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). Here we evaluated the incidence of laboratory-confirmed rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) cases over the years 2015 to ...
Heather Hong +15 more
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Improving sensitivity of oral fluid testing in IgG prevalence studies: application of mixture models to a rubella antibody survey [PDF]
, 2003 A method for the analysis of age-stratified antibody prevalence surveys is applied to a previously reported survey of antibody to rubella virus using oral fluid samples in which the sensitivity of the assay used was shown to be compromised.
Nigatu, Wondatir +4 more
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Rubella immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years, Namibia, 2010
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 Background: The level of rubella susceptibility among women of reproductive age in Namibia is unknown. Documenting the risk of rubella will help estimate the potential burden of disease in Namibian women and the risk of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS ...
Anna Jonas +14 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Objectives: Rubella cases in the Central African Republic (CAF) are currently identified during measles surveillance. This study aimed to investigate rubella epidemiology between 2015 and 2016 and to provide baseline genotype data for monitoring future ...
Marilou S. PAGONENDJI +6 more
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Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyWe report the development of a bench protocol and evaluation of bioinformatics pipelines for the whole genome sequence (WGS) of measles virus (MeV) genotype D8. We established a bench protocol using 1 kb amplicons tiling the MeV WGS.
Vanessa Zubach +5 more
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Case based rubella surveillance in Abia State, South East Nigeria, 2007–2011 [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Introduction. Rubella infection has the potential of causing severe fetal birth defects collectively called congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) if the mother is infected early in pregnancy.
Chukwuemeka Anthony Umeh +1 more
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Vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies bind to the H protein of a historical measles virus
International Journal of Medical MicrobiologyMeasles is a highly contagious airborne viral disease. It can lead to serious complications and death and is preventable by vaccination. The live-attenuated measles vaccine (LAMV) derived from a measles virus (MV) isolated in 1954 has been in use ...
Anne Zemella +16 more
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