Nosocomial outbreak of measles amongst a highly vaccinated population in an English hospital setting.
| Autor: | Berry L; University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry, United Kingdom., Palmer T; Communicable Disease Control, West Midlands Health Protection Team, Public Health England, Birmingham, United Kingdom., Wells F; Infection prevention and control, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, United Kingdom., Williams E; Coventry & Warwickshire Occupational Health Shared Service, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, United Kingdom., Sibal B; Communicable Disease Control, West Midlands Health Protection Team, Public Health England, Birmingham, United Kingdom., Timms J; Department of Virology and Molecular Pathology, Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, United Kingdom. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Infection prevention in practice [Infect Prev Pract] 2019 Aug 17; Vol. 1 (2), pp. 100018. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Aug 17 (Print Publication: 2019). |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.infpip.2019.100018 |
| Abstrakt: | 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. (© 2019 The Authors.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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