Nosocomial outbreak of measles amongst a highly vaccinated population in an English hospital setting

In May 2017 a patient attended the emergency department at a hospital in England, with a presumed allergic reaction. He was subsequently diagnosed with measles. There were seven further confirmed cases, five of whom had received two doses of MMR vaccine. This outbreak highlights the importance of no...

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Autores principales: Berry, L., Palmer, T., Wells, F., Williams, E., Sibal, B., Timms, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34368679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2019.100018
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description In May 2017 a patient attended the emergency department at a hospital in England, with a presumed allergic reaction. He was subsequently diagnosed with measles. There were seven further confirmed cases, five of whom had received two doses of MMR vaccine. This outbreak highlights the importance of not relying on vaccination status to rule out the diagnosis of measles. Epidemiological investigations of this outbreak were particularly challenging due to the highly infectious nature of the measles virus, and prevented full elucidation of either the source of this outbreak or the transmission pathways.
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spelling pubmed-83363042021-08-05 Nosocomial outbreak of measles amongst a highly vaccinated population in an English hospital setting Berry, L. Palmer, T. Wells, F. Williams, E. Sibal, B. Timms, J. Infect Prev Pract Article In May 2017 a patient attended the emergency department at a hospital in England, with a presumed allergic reaction. He was subsequently diagnosed with measles. There were seven further confirmed cases, five of whom had received two doses of MMR vaccine. This outbreak highlights the importance of not relying on vaccination status to rule out the diagnosis of measles. Epidemiological investigations of this outbreak were particularly challenging due to the highly infectious nature of the measles virus, and prevented full elucidation of either the source of this outbreak or the transmission pathways. Elsevier 2019-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8336304/ /pubmed/34368679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2019.100018 Text en © 2019 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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