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A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016

Endemic measles transmission was interrupted for the first time in Ireland in 2015. In May 2016, a case of measles was confirmed in an adult who had travelled from Hungary to Ireland (index case). Cases subsequently arose in five of the eight public health regions around the country. There were 40 c...

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Autores principales: Barrett, Peter, Cotter, Suzanne, Ryan, Fiona, Connell, Jeff, Cronin, Anthony, Ward, Mary, Fitzgerald, Rose, Lynch, Catherine, Margiotta, Tony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30086818
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.31.1700655
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author Barrett, Peter
Cotter, Suzanne
Ryan, Fiona
Connell, Jeff
Cronin, Anthony
Ward, Mary
Fitzgerald, Rose
Lynch, Catherine
Margiotta, Tony
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Cotter, Suzanne
Ryan, Fiona
Connell, Jeff
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Ward, Mary
Fitzgerald, Rose
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Margiotta, Tony
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description Endemic measles transmission was interrupted for the first time in Ireland in 2015. In May 2016, a case of measles was confirmed in an adult who had travelled from Hungary to Ireland (index case). Cases subsequently arose in five of the eight public health regions around the country. There were 40 confirmed cases in Ireland between April and September 2016. All sequenced cases were genotype B3. Vaccination status was known for 34 cases, of whom 31 were unvaccinated. Median age was 8 years (range: 3 months to 40 years). Ten cases were nosocomial, and three cases were infected on separate international flights. One linked case occurred in a resident of Slovenia. Nineteen cases were hospitalised; median duration of hospitalisation was 5 days (range: 2–8 days). The primary case was a child who travelled from Romania to Ireland via Budapest, and infected the index adult case on the same flight. This was the first reported outbreak of measles genotype B3 in Ireland. This outbreak demonstrated that Ireland remains at risk of measles outbreaks due to persistent suboptimal vaccination rates.
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spelling pubmed-61676092018-10-12 A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016 Barrett, Peter Cotter, Suzanne Ryan, Fiona Connell, Jeff Cronin, Anthony Ward, Mary Fitzgerald, Rose Lynch, Catherine Margiotta, Tony Euro Surveill Surveillance and Outbreak Report Endemic measles transmission was interrupted for the first time in Ireland in 2015. In May 2016, a case of measles was confirmed in an adult who had travelled from Hungary to Ireland (index case). Cases subsequently arose in five of the eight public health regions around the country. There were 40 confirmed cases in Ireland between April and September 2016. All sequenced cases were genotype B3. Vaccination status was known for 34 cases, of whom 31 were unvaccinated. Median age was 8 years (range: 3 months to 40 years). Ten cases were nosocomial, and three cases were infected on separate international flights. One linked case occurred in a resident of Slovenia. Nineteen cases were hospitalised; median duration of hospitalisation was 5 days (range: 2–8 days). The primary case was a child who travelled from Romania to Ireland via Budapest, and infected the index adult case on the same flight. This was the first reported outbreak of measles genotype B3 in Ireland. This outbreak demonstrated that Ireland remains at risk of measles outbreaks due to persistent suboptimal vaccination rates. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6167609/ /pubmed/30086818 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.31.1700655 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Cotter, Suzanne
Ryan, Fiona
Connell, Jeff
Cronin, Anthony
Ward, Mary
Fitzgerald, Rose
Lynch, Catherine
Margiotta, Tony
A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title_full A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title_fullStr A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title_full_unstemmed A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title_short A national measles outbreak in Ireland linked to a single imported case, April to September, 2016
title_sort national measles outbreak in ireland linked to a single imported case, april to september, 2016
topic Surveillance and Outbreak Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30086818
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.31.1700655
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