Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination

Varicella outbreaks continue to occur in schools. We assessed potential factors associated with the size and duration of 560 school-based outbreaks in Shanghai, China. Outbreaks occurring in primary and middle schools involved more cases and had longer durations, and conducting postexposure prophyla...

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Autores principales: Wu, Qiangsong, Zhang, Linwei, Liu, Jingyi, Chen, Yuanfang, Zhou, Qi, Xuan, Zeliang, Hu, Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz410
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author Wu, Qiangsong
Zhang, Linwei
Liu, Jingyi
Chen, Yuanfang
Zhou, Qi
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description Varicella outbreaks continue to occur in schools. We assessed potential factors associated with the size and duration of 560 school-based outbreaks in Shanghai, China. Outbreaks occurring in primary and middle schools involved more cases and had longer durations, and conducting postexposure prophylaxis campaigns was an effective strategy for outbreak control.
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spelling pubmed-67865052019-10-15 Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination Wu, Qiangsong Zhang, Linwei Liu, Jingyi Chen, Yuanfang Zhou, Qi Xuan, Zeliang Hu, Yi Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Varicella outbreaks continue to occur in schools. We assessed potential factors associated with the size and duration of 560 school-based outbreaks in Shanghai, China. Outbreaks occurring in primary and middle schools involved more cases and had longer durations, and conducting postexposure prophylaxis campaigns was an effective strategy for outbreak control. Oxford University Press 2019-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6786505/ /pubmed/31660368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz410 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Brief Report
Wu, Qiangsong
Zhang, Linwei
Liu, Jingyi
Chen, Yuanfang
Zhou, Qi
Xuan, Zeliang
Hu, Yi
Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title_full Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title_fullStr Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title_full_unstemmed Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title_short Factors Influencing the Size and Duration of School Varicella Outbreaks in Shanghai, China, in the Era of Voluntary Single-Dose Vaccination
title_sort factors influencing the size and duration of school varicella outbreaks in shanghai, china, in the era of voluntary single-dose vaccination
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz410
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