Seroprevalence of Measles in Healthcare Workers in South Korea

There are only limited data regarding the seroprevalence of measles of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Korea. We evaluated the seroprevalence of measles in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Korea. A total of 7,411 HCWs born from 1952 to 1995 underwent antibody test. The overall seropositivity of meas...

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Autores principales: Jung, Jiwon, Kim, Sun-Kyung, Kwak, Sun Hee, Hong, Min Jee, Kim, Sung-Han
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30941939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.1.58
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author Jung, Jiwon
Kim, Sun-Kyung
Kwak, Sun Hee
Hong, Min Jee
Kim, Sung-Han
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description There are only limited data regarding the seroprevalence of measles of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Korea. We evaluated the seroprevalence of measles in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Korea. A total of 7,411 HCWs born from 1952 to 1995 underwent antibody test. The overall seropositivity of measles was 73% (95% confidence interval, 72 – 74). The seropositivity of measles sharply declined from 85% in the 1986 birth cohort to 42% in the 1995 birth cohort, thus signifying pockets of under-immunity. Our data warrant the need for routine antibody tests, followed by measles vaccination or routine measles vaccination in young Korean HCWs.
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spelling pubmed-64460172019-04-03 Seroprevalence of Measles in Healthcare Workers in South Korea Jung, Jiwon Kim, Sun-Kyung Kwak, Sun Hee Hong, Min Jee Kim, Sung-Han Infect Chemother Brief Communication There are only limited data regarding the seroprevalence of measles of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Korea. We evaluated the seroprevalence of measles in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Korea. A total of 7,411 HCWs born from 1952 to 1995 underwent antibody test. The overall seropositivity of measles was 73% (95% confidence interval, 72 – 74). The seropositivity of measles sharply declined from 85% in the 1986 birth cohort to 42% in the 1995 birth cohort, thus signifying pockets of under-immunity. Our data warrant the need for routine antibody tests, followed by measles vaccination or routine measles vaccination in young Korean HCWs. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019-03 2019-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6446017/ /pubmed/30941939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.1.58 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy 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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