Adequacy of Surveillance to Detect Endemic Rubella Transmission in the United States | Zendy

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Adequacy of Surveillance to Detect Endemic Rubella Transmission in the United States

Author(s) -

Francisco Averhoff,

Jane R. Zucker,

Claudia Vellozzi,

Susan B. Redd,

Celia J. I. Woodfill,

Steve Waterman,

James Baggs,

Michelle Weinberg,

Alfonso Rodriquez-Lainz,

Verónica Carrión,

Collin S. Goto,

Susan E. Reef

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/505948

Subject(s) - rubella , medicine , measles , congenital rubella syndrome , rubella vaccine , congenital rubella , rubella virus , transmission (telecommunications) , outbreak , environmental health , pediatrics , vaccination , virology , telecommunications , computer science

Reported rubella cases in the United States are at the lowest numbers since the introduction of vaccine, suggesting that endemic transmission may have been interrupted. It is necessary to validate that the observed absence of rubella is due to the disappearance of disease rather than a failure of rubella surveillance.

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