rubella a benign viral and modestly contagious illness in children, becomes a very dangerous story when acquired by pregnant women. the potential of its teratogenicity is obvious. since prevention is preferred to treatment, diagnosis of rubella infection syndrome being difficult in early stages of pregnancy, the uncertainly about fetuses being really infected and therapeutic abortion because of...

background and aims: vaccine is available, but fetal infection with rubella virus is still a main cause of congenital birth defects and mental retardation in many countries. mass vaccination campaigns and expanded program of immunization (epi) have increased vaccine coverage in the world with a substantial impact on the reduction of rubella infections, such as congenital rubella syndrome (crs)....

in the present study the distribution of rubella hemagglutination inhibition (hi) antibody titer in the sera of 1486 women of 18 to 25 years old residing in tehran were examined. sera were pretreated with acid washed kaolin and pigeon red blood cell. titers below 1:10 and in some studies below 1:20 are considered nonimmune to rubella. our results show that 10, 29% of studied population had hi a...

Summary In order to determine the immunity state against Rubella in 10-19 year old women in urban and rural area of Chahar -Mahal Bakhtiari province of IRAN in act 1992. We have done a cross sectional seroepidemiologic study in 1347 women. This study showed a high rate of immunity against Rubella in this province. About 90.5% of studied population had protective antibody titer against Rubella...

Rubella is a highly contagious viral infection that can cause devastating effects on growing fetus. Although rubella be prevented with the measles, mumps and (MMR) vaccine, some individuals have weak immune response do not sustain an adequate antibody titer to protect against disease. MMR titers are routinely assessed in general population, although healthcare professionals, military workers pr...

In this report, a seroepidemiological survey was performed to determine the prevalence of rubella immunity and antibody titer in 11-16 year old girls in urban and rural areas of Tonkabon district in northern Iran. The results and conclusion are presented.

To our knowledge, this is the first report of the use of real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to assess changes in viral load in a patient with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Rubella-specific antibody titers were also determined. The patient was a male neonate born to a primipara with rubella infection at 10 weeks of gestation. He had no symptoms at birth, but rubella v...

INTRODUCTION//BACKGROUND The lack of standardization of the currently used commercial anti-rubella IgG antibody assays leads to frequent misinterpretation of results for samples with low/equivocal antibody concentration. The use of alternative approaches in rubella serology could add new information leading to a fuller understanding of rubella protective immunity and neutralizing antibody respo...

conclusions more than 95% of 15 to 25 year-old women (main reproductive age in iran) are within acceptable immunity range. level of immunity to rubella in women of reproductive age in this region appears satisfactory. patients and methods this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 760 women younger than 25 years attending medical centers in ahvaz. a sample of 3 ml of venous blood w...