A radial haemolysis test was used to investigate immunity to mumps. Antibody was found in 92 (42%) out of 220 children aged up to 5 years, 124 (78%) out of 159 children aged 6--10 years, 192 (86%) out of 222 children aged 11 years, 138 (92%) out of 150 children aged 15 years, and 280 (95%) out of 296 women attending an antenatal clinic. A group of 307 cadets aged 16--18 years were also tested a...

Prior to the adoption of widespread vaccination programs, mumps virus was the leading cause of virus-induced central nervous system (CNS) disease. Mumps virus-associated CNS complications in vaccinees continue to be reported; outside the United States, some of these complications have been attributed to vaccination with insufficiently attenuated neurovirulent vaccine strains. The development of...

Introduction: The classic “Mumps” is known as a viral parotitis caused by mumps virus belonging to the genus Rubulavirus in the Paramyxoviridae family. Case Presentation: We reviewed three patients diagnosed with aseptic meningitis due to acute non-mumps associated parotitis based on clinical and laboratory findings. While there are many similarities between the clinical characteristics of clas...

The incidence of mumps infection in the UK was reduced greatly by vaccination as a component of MMR vaccine, but cases and outbreaks continue to occur. Although in specialised laboratories RT-PCR is available for detection of mumps virus RNA in clinical samples, in routine laboratories virus isolation remains a standard method for diagnosing mumps virus infection. Furthermore, isolation of mump...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The reports from the countries where mumps vaccine is given as routine immunization suggest differences in mumps virus neutralizing antibody titres when tested with vaccine and wild type viruses. Such reports are unavailable from countries like India where mumps vaccine is not included in routine immunization. We, therefore, undertook this study to understand the cross-n...

This talk focuses on the direct solution of large complex indefinite unsymmetric systems, that arise in acoustic, vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic simulations. These systems are structurally symmetric and may contain some large dense blocks, e.g. due to the selection of hybrid modal/physical representations in the model. The first part of the talk gives an overview of the experienced MUMPS capa...

A micro neutralization test was used for the detection and evaluation of mumps neutralizing antibodies. A total of 1037 blood samples from selected groups of students aged 7 to 22 years in south and east of Tehran, 139 blood samples from the umbilical cords of pregnant women at two Tehran hospitals at delivery time, and 190 samples from children under five years of age who were living in tw...

Mumps is a highly contagious human disease, characterized by lateral or bilateral nonsuppurative swelling of the parotid glands and neurological complications that can result in aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. A mumps vaccination program implemented since the 1960s reduced mumps incidence by more than 99% and kept the mumps case numbers as low as hundreds of cases per year in the United Sta...

mumps infection is endemic in iran. our objective was to evaluate the presence of anti mumps antibodies ( igm & igg) in cerebrospinal fluid in mumps meningoencephalitic children. a prospective/cross-sectional study was performed in tehran, iran (2003 to 2004) and serum anti mumps antibodies (igm) were detected (quantitive; elisa) in meningoencephaltis patients. specific anti mumps antibodies (i...