Background.  In the United States, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella immunity is now primarily achieved through vaccination. Monitoring population immunity is necessary. Methods.  We evaluated seroprevalence of antibodies to measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 2009-2010. Results.  Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella se...

A 6-year-old boy suffered acute profound right side deafness after his classmates had mumps. Although his salivary glands were not swollen, he had high levels of anti-mumps IgM and IgG antibodies. The three-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D-FLAIR) procedure applied to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed high signals in the right cochlea and vestibule. This indicated hemorr...

Recently, numerous large-scale mumps outbreaks have occurred in vaccinated populations. Clinical isolates sequenced from these outbreaks have invariably been of genotypes distinct from those of vaccine viruses, raising concern that certain mumps virus strains may escape vaccine-induced immunity. To investigate this concern, sera obtained from children 6 weeks after receipt of measles, mumps, an...

Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine carries a risk of joint symptoms particularly in children under 5 years. A boy who presented with an inflamed knee after measles and mumps vaccination is reported; synovial fluid aspirated from the joint contained 4.3 x 10(9)/l leucocytes. It is thought that the mumps component is the aetiological cause of acute monoarthritis.

Introduction. Due to the increased incidence of measles in Russia and many other regions world, vaccines for prevention are especially demand. Ensuring quality vaccine effective disease is within scope tasks state policy our country.
 Objective. Evaluation experience using a pharmacopoeial standard material activity measurement specific virus with component that used Russian Federation pre...

During July 2015–May 2016, a mumps outbreak occurred at the University of Iowa, which is located in Johnson County (1). A total of 301 cases of mumps were diagnosed among students. To characterize the outbreak, the Johnson County Public Health Department, the Iowa Department of Public Health, and the University of Iowa, with assistance from CDC, conducted an investigation through telephone inte...

PURPOSE Mumps vaccine has not been included in the routine national immunization program in Japan, leading to low vaccine coverage rates and periodic epidemics approximately every 5 years. Our hospital (a secondary community hospital in Japan) experienced an increased number of mumps-related complications with a nationwide epidemic in 2016. Using previously reported data and mumps-related cases...

Johnstone, J. A., Ross, C. A. C., and Dunn, M. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 647. Meningitis and encephalitis associated with mumps infection: a 10-year survey. During the 10-year period 1960-69, 137 patients in Ruchill Hospital were diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as mumps meningitis. Parotitis was detected in only 51 (37%). There was a male preponderance, 97: 40....

The expression of mumps virus nucleocapsid protein in yeast Pichia pastoris was investigated. Viral nucleocapsid proteins usually elicit a strong long-term humoral immune response in patients and experimental animals. Therefore, the detection of antibodies specific to mumps virus nucleoprotein can play an important role in immunoassays for mumps diagnosis. For producing a high-level of recombin...