Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019

We performed a point seroprevalence survey of measles among healthcare workers (HCWs) at two Korean teaching hospitals in 2019. A total of 2,830 HCWs underwent an antibody test. The overall seropositivity of measles was 93.1%. The seroprevalence of measles was lowest in HCWs aged 20 - 24 years (81.2...

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Autores principales: Kwak, Yee Gyung, Song, Je Eun, Oh, Gang-Bok, Jeong, In Hye, Cho, Chong Rae, Kim, Namhee, Yoo, Hyeon Mi, Yoo, Gyeong Min, Lee, Myung Jin, Kim, Baek-Nam
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Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2020
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.93
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author Kwak, Yee Gyung
Song, Je Eun
Oh, Gang-Bok
Jeong, In Hye
Cho, Chong Rae
Kim, Namhee
Yoo, Hyeon Mi
Yoo, Gyeong Min
Lee, Myung Jin
Kim, Baek-Nam
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Song, Je Eun
Oh, Gang-Bok
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Kim, Namhee
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description We performed a point seroprevalence survey of measles among healthcare workers (HCWs) at two Korean teaching hospitals in 2019. A total of 2,830 HCWs underwent an antibody test. The overall seropositivity of measles was 93.1%. The seroprevalence of measles was lowest in HCWs aged 20 - 24 years (81.2%), followed by those aged 25 - 29 years (90.1%). The rates of anti-measles IgG positivity were significantly different between the two hospitals (97.0% vs. 89.4%, P <0.001). These results suggest that the seropositivity of measles in HCWs may differ depending on the hospital's vaccination policy.
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spelling pubmed-71134532020-04-07 Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019 Kwak, Yee Gyung Song, Je Eun Oh, Gang-Bok Jeong, In Hye Cho, Chong Rae Kim, Namhee Yoo, Hyeon Mi Yoo, Gyeong Min Lee, Myung Jin Kim, Baek-Nam Infect Chemother Brief Communication We performed a point seroprevalence survey of measles among healthcare workers (HCWs) at two Korean teaching hospitals in 2019. A total of 2,830 HCWs underwent an antibody test. The overall seropositivity of measles was 93.1%. The seroprevalence of measles was lowest in HCWs aged 20 - 24 years (81.2%), followed by those aged 25 - 29 years (90.1%). The rates of anti-measles IgG positivity were significantly different between the two hospitals (97.0% vs. 89.4%, P <0.001). These results suggest that the seropositivity of measles in HCWs may differ depending on the hospital's vaccination policy. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2020-03 2020-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7113453/ /pubmed/31997601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.93 Text en Copyright © 2020 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, and The Korean Society for AIDS 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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Song, Je Eun
Oh, Gang-Bok
Jeong, In Hye
Cho, Chong Rae
Kim, Namhee
Yoo, Hyeon Mi
Yoo, Gyeong Min
Lee, Myung Jin
Kim, Baek-Nam
Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019
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title_fullStr Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019
title_short Comparison of the Seroprevalence of Measles Antibodies among Healthcare Workers in Two Korean Hospitals in 2019
title_sort comparison of the seroprevalence of measles antibodies among healthcare workers in two korean hospitals in 2019
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.93
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