Sero-prevalence of rubella among pregnant women in India, 2017

Autor: Shyama Chaudhary, R. Sabarinathan, S. S. Naik, Manasa Bharadwaj, Vijaylakshmi Nag, Ambar Bhatnagar, Suhas Otiv, Naga Raj, Sanjay Verma, Ashish Bavdekar, Chandrakant Raut, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, Jyoti Kolekar, Nivedita Gupta, Suji George, Rajalakshmi Viswanathan, Asha Benakappa, Minakshi Gupta, Kuldeep Singh, Ravinder Kaur Sachdeva, Asha Mary Abraham, Vishakha Varma, Mini P Singh, Vanita Suri, Pratibha Singh, Gajanan N. Sapkal, Srinivas Krishna Jois, Divya Elizabeth Muliyil, G. R. V. Prasad, Valsan Philip Verghese, Vishal Jagtap, Sridhar Santhanam, Manoj V Murhekar
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Vaccine. 36(52)
ISSN: 1873-2518
Popis: BACKGROUND We conducted a sero-survey among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics of six hospitals which also function as sentinel sites for CRS surveillance, to estimate the prevalence of IgG antibodies against rubella. METHODS We systematically sampled 1800 pregnant women attending antenatal clinics and tested their sera for IgG antibodies against rubella. We classified sera as seropositive (titre ≥10 IU/ml), sero-negative (titre
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