Open AccessLower Rate of Seropositivity to Measles Among Young Healthcare Personnel in New York City
Author(s) -
Anabella Lucca Bianchi,
Nagla S. Bayoumi,
Lakshmi Ramanathan,
Kent A. Sepkowitz,
Mini Kamboj
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa660
Subject(s) - medicine , measles , health care , immunity , young adult , demography , antibody , immunology , gerontology , vaccination , immune system , sociology , economics , economic growth
We examined the prevalence of measles antibody among 12 349 newly hired HCP between 2009 and 2019. Younger HCP were significantly more likely to have no immunity. Compared with a 92.2% seropositive rate among 1057 persons hired at age >50 years, only 84.4% of approximately 10 000 HCP aged <40 years had protective antibody.