CONTEXT Rubella is a mild self-limiting disease all over the world; nevertheless, it is of significant public health importance due to its teratogenic effect of congenital rubella syndrome. Rubella vaccine is currently not included in the national immunization program in India. Rubella-specific IgG in the unvaccinated population is a marker of previous rubella infection. Rubella IgG estimation ...

Three commercial indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) (RUBELISA, Enzygnost-Rubella, and Rubazyme) and a commercial single radial hemolysis (SRH) test (Rubazone) were evaluated for the diagnosis of acute rubella by testing 41 acute- (less than 7 days postonset) and convalescent-phase (8 to 82 days postonset) serum pairs from cases of rubella previously confirmed by significant ch...

In hospitals, infection control for measles and rubella is important. Medical and nursing students as well as healthcare workers must have immunity against these diseases. Many countries have adopted requirements for healthcare workers’ documented vaccination history or laboratory tests as evidence of their immunity. Evaluating a written vaccination history is difficult in many cases. Therefore...

BACKGROUND Despite the serious consequences of rubella infection during early pregnancy, very little is known about the rubella seroprevalence in a number of African countries including Burkina Faso. METHODS Between December 2007 and March 2008 serum samples were collected from 341 pregnant women in Bobo (n = 132, urban area) and Houndé (n = 209, rural area) and were tested for rubella-specif...

Purpose - to study the state of protection against vaccine-controlled infections in children with primary immunodeficiency (PID) and on immunosuppressive therapy. Materials methods. The object was level intensity humoral immunity viral (measles, rubella) bacterial (diphtheria, tetanus) immunosuppressed patients. Protective levels specific IgG antibodies vaccine antigens were determined 58 20 re...

During the prevalence of rubella infection in Japan in 1975, we experienced 2 cases complicated with cardiac involvement: a 40-year-old housewife and a 52-year-old man. These 2 cases showed enlarged cardiac silhouettes and bilateral pleural effusion on the chest X-ray films. Pericardial effusion was demonstrated by echocardiogram and cardiac RI pool scintigram. A myocardial biopsy specimen show...

Amongst neurological complications of rubella virus infection, polyradiculoneuritis as well as encephalitis is very rare. Only one case of postrubella polyradiculoneuritis combined with encephalitis has been reported to our knowledge. A 17-years-old male presented with suspected meningoencephalitis in a recent epidemic of rubella in a southern district of Korea. He developed symmetrical hyporef...

Background & Objective: Dangerous O is very important to transfusion medicine and there has been reports by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding some death relating incidences. As high iso-antibody production is closely associated with different immune reactions, a survey on the different immune response of dangerous O donors can lead to understanding their immune respo...