Rubella Eradication: Not Yet Accomplished, but Entirely Feasible.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 34590132.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/infdis/jiaa530 and PMC identifier 8482023.
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Abstract
Rubella virus is the most teratogenic virus known to science and is capable of causing large epidemics. The RA 27/3 rubella vaccine, usually combined with measles vaccine, has eliminated rubella and congenital rubella syndrome from much of the world, notably from the Western Hemisphere. Except in immunosuppressed individuals, it is remarkably safe. Together with rubella vaccine strains used in China and Japan, eradication of the rubella virus is possible, indeed more feasible than eradication of measles or mumps.
Medical subject headings
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
- Rubella
- Rubella virus