| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the 1977 recommendations of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for rubella vaccination. Rubella is a common childhood exanthem often overlooked or misdiagnosed. Signs and symptoms vary, and the most common features, postauricular and suboccipital lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and transient erythematous rash with low fever, may not be recognized as rubella. Moreover, subclinical infection occurs frequently. Transient polyarthralgia and polyarthritis sometimes accompany or follow rubella illness. These complications are most frequently in women but are also seen in men and children. Central nervous system disorders and thrombocytopenia are rare. |
