Seroprevalence of mumps in healthcare workers in South Korea

Mumps is contagious disease and maintaining immunity to mumps in healthcare worker (HCW) is important for preventing transmission in the hospital. We evaluated the seroprevalence of mumps in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Republic of Korea. A total of 6,055 HCWs born between 1950 and 1995 under...

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Autores principales: Kim, Sun-Kyung, Jung, Jiwon, Kwak, Sun Hee, Hong, Min Jee, Kim, Sung-Han
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Vaccine Society 2020
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7024726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32095442
http://dx.doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2020.9.1.64
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author Kim, Sun-Kyung
Jung, Jiwon
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Kim, Sung-Han
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description Mumps is contagious disease and maintaining immunity to mumps in healthcare worker (HCW) is important for preventing transmission in the hospital. We evaluated the seroprevalence of mumps in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Republic of Korea. A total of 6,055 HCWs born between 1950 and 1995 underwent antibody testing. The overall seropositivity rate of mumps was 87% (95% confidence interval, 86%–87%). Our data indicates that, in Korean HCWs, testing for mumps antibody followed by mumps vaccination is more appropriate than routine mumps vaccination without testing for mumps antibody.
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spelling pubmed-70247262020-02-24 Seroprevalence of mumps in healthcare workers in South Korea Kim, Sun-Kyung Jung, Jiwon Kwak, Sun Hee Hong, Min Jee Kim, Sung-Han Clin Exp Vaccine Res Brief Communication Mumps is contagious disease and maintaining immunity to mumps in healthcare worker (HCW) is important for preventing transmission in the hospital. We evaluated the seroprevalence of mumps in HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Republic of Korea. A total of 6,055 HCWs born between 1950 and 1995 underwent antibody testing. The overall seropositivity rate of mumps was 87% (95% confidence interval, 86%–87%). Our data indicates that, in Korean HCWs, testing for mumps antibody followed by mumps vaccination is more appropriate than routine mumps vaccination without testing for mumps antibody. The Korean Vaccine Society 2020-01 2020-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7024726/ /pubmed/32095442 http://dx.doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2020.9.1.64 Text en © Korean Vaccine Society. http://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 (http://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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http://dx.doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2020.9.1.64
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