Epidemiological and Clinical Studies in Patients with Mumps in Pleven District, Bulgaria, 2000–2008

Introduction: The implemented during recent 2–3 decades specific immunoprophylactics against mumps led to serious changes on the intensity and dynamics of the disease all over the world. Objectives: To perform epidemiological analysis of the trend of the disease outbreak for the period 2000 till 2008; to investigate the clinical cases with hospitalized subjects for the same period in Pleven district, Bulgaria. Materials and Methods: There have been used data from the National Centere of Infectious and Parasite Diseases, data reports and analysis of Regional Authority for Protection and Control of Public Health-Pleven. One hundred sixty one patients, suffering mumps, hospitalized in Clinic of Infectious Diseases, were included in the survey. Results: For the period 2000–2008 in Pleven district 974 persons fell ill with mumps. The most inflicted were children and young adults: 10–14 and 15–19 years old — 517 (53.08%) in the first group; 282 (28.95%) in the second age group. There were defined the following clinical forms of mumps infection between the hospitalized persons. Conclusion: The conducted clinical-epidemiological survey of mumps shows that in the conditions of popular specific immunoprophylactics the next epidemiological characteristics undergo changes.