An Outbreak of Measles in a University in Korea, 2014

Measles has been declared eliminated from the Korea since 2006. In April 2014, a measles outbreak occurred at a University in Seoul. A total of 85 measles cases were identified. In order to estimate vaccine effectiveness of measles vaccine, we reviewed the vaccination records of the university stude...

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Autores principales: Choe, Young June, Park, Young-Joon, Kim, Ju Whi, Eom, Hye Eun, Park, Ok, Oh, Myoung-don, Lee, Jong-koo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2017
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28960044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876
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author Choe, Young June
Park, Young-Joon
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Park, Ok
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description Measles has been declared eliminated from the Korea since 2006. In April 2014, a measles outbreak occurred at a University in Seoul. A total of 85 measles cases were identified. In order to estimate vaccine effectiveness of measles vaccine, we reviewed the vaccination records of the university students. The vaccine effectiveness of two doses of measles containing vaccine was 60.0% (95% CI, 38.2–74.1; P < 0.05). Transmission was interrupted after the introduction of outbreak-response immunization. The outbreak shows that pockets of under-immunity among college students may have facilitated the disease transmission despite the high 2-dose vaccination coverage in the community.
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spelling pubmed-56390722017-11-01 An Outbreak of Measles in a University in Korea, 2014 Choe, Young June Park, Young-Joon Kim, Ju Whi Eom, Hye Eun Park, Ok Oh, Myoung-don Lee, Jong-koo J Korean Med Sci Brief Communication Measles has been declared eliminated from the Korea since 2006. In April 2014, a measles outbreak occurred at a University in Seoul. A total of 85 measles cases were identified. In order to estimate vaccine effectiveness of measles vaccine, we reviewed the vaccination records of the university students. The vaccine effectiveness of two doses of measles containing vaccine was 60.0% (95% CI, 38.2–74.1; P < 0.05). Transmission was interrupted after the introduction of outbreak-response immunization. The outbreak shows that pockets of under-immunity among college students may have facilitated the disease transmission despite the high 2-dose vaccination coverage in the community. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2017-11 2017-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5639072/ /pubmed/28960044 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876 Text en © 2017 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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