Rubella seroprevalence among healthy individuals in Izmir, Turkey
| Autor: | Zafer Kurugöl, Levent Midyat, Tijen Özacar, Ebru Turkoglu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Turkey Health Status Immunology Physiology Antibodies Viral medicine.disease_cause Logistic regression Rubella Young Adult Seroepidemiologic Studies Epidemiology medicine Cluster Analysis Humans Seroprevalence General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Young adult Child Aged biology business.industry Infant Rubella virus Middle Aged medicine.disease Vaccination Logistic Models Child Preschool biology.protein Female Antibody business |
| Zdroj: | Human Vaccines. 7:972-975 |
| ISSN: | 1554-8619 1554-8600 |
| DOI: | 10.4161/hv.7.9.16370 |
| Popis: | In order to assess immunity to rubella in Izmir, Turkey, a total of 600 persons of 1-70 years of age were selected with cluster sampling. Of the 597 subjects, 120(20.1%) was susceptible to the rubella according to their serum antibody levels. Of children 1 to 6 years of age, 50.9% was found to be serologically susceptible to rubella. Rubella protection rates showed a age-related increase, reaching maximum in the 15-19 age group, in which 98.1% of these subjects had antibody titre above the full protective level. Of the 126 females in the reproductive age group, only 4(3.1%) were found to be serologically susceptible to rubella. Logistic regression analysis showed that among the several independent variables, only age (p< 0.001) was significantly associated with rubella protective antibody levels. Epidemiological studies should continue as the epidemiological characteristics of the disease may change depending on the uptake of MMR vaccination. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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