Toward rubella elimination in Poland: Need for supplemental immunization activities, enhanced surveillance, and further integration with measles elimination efforts

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Zimmerman, Laura ^a   Rogalska, Justyna ^b   Wannemuehler, Kathleen A ^a   Haponiuk, Marzena ^c   Kosek, Adam ^d   Pauch, Ewa ^e   Plonska, Elzbieta ^f   Veltze, Daniel ^g   Czarkowski, Miroslaw P ^b   Buddh, Nilesh ^h   Reef, Susan ^a   Stefanoff, Pawel ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^c Section of Epidemiology and Surveillance   (Poland)

^d Voyvodship Sanitary Epidemiological Station   (Poland)

^e Voyvodship Sanitary Epidemiological Station   (Poland)

^f Section of Epidemiology and Surveillance   (Poland)

^g Section of Epidemiology and Surveillance   (Poland)

^h WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPPLEMENTAL IMMUNIZATION ACTIVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RUBELLA; RUBELLA SYNDROME, CONGENITAL; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960851465     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir082     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Cooper LZ, Krugman S. Clinical manifestations of postnatal and congenital rubella. Arch Ophthalmol 1967; 77:434-9.
2. Zimmerman LA, Reef SE. Rubella (German measles). In: Longo DE, et al, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Scheduled for publication July 2011.
3. Koplan JP, White CC. An update of the benefits and costs of measles and rubella immunization. In: Proceedings of the Symposium "Conquest of Agents that Endanger the Brain". Baltimore, Maryland, 1982.
4. WHO. http://www.who.int/immunization-monitoring/data/data-subject/en/ index.html. Accessed 14 May 2010.
5. Eliminating measles and rubella and preventing congenital rubella infection. WHO European Region strategic plan 2005-2010. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2005. http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E87772.pdf. Accessed 14 May 2010.
6. UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/poland.html. Accessed 14 May 2010.
7. Rogalska J, Santibanez S, Mankertz A, et al. Spotlight on measles 2010: an epidemiological overview of measles outbreaks in Poland in relation to the measles elimination goal. Eurosurveillance 2010; 15:19549. Available at http//www.eurusurveillance.org/Viewarticle.aspx? Articleid519549.
8. Orlikova H, Rogalska J, Kazanowska-Ziellinska E, et al. Spotlight on measles 2010: a measles outbreak in a Roma population in Pulawy, eastern Poland, June to August 2009. Eurosurveillance 2010; 15:19550. Available at http://www.eurusurveillance.org/Viewarticle.aspx?Articleid=19550.
9. Wysokinska T, Janaszek W, Bucholc B, et al. The prevalence of antirubella antibodies in women of childbearing age in Poland. Vaccine 2004; 22:1899-902.
10. Macey H, van Binnendijk R, Dolman S, et al. Rubella outbreak in the Netherlands, 2004-2005: high burden of congenital infection and spread to Canada. PIDS 2009; 28:795-800.
11. Samad S, Segatta C, Mengue S. Historical analysis of birth cohorts not vaccinated against rubella prior to national rubella vaccination campaign, Brazil. In: Presented at the 12th World Congress on Public Health. April 27-May 1. Istanbul Turkey, 2009.
12. PAHO. Castillos C, ed: Measles, rubella CRS: Rubella Watch. Washington DC, January-February, 2009.
13. CDC. Nationwide capmpaign for vaccination of adults against rubella and measles-Costa Rica, 2001. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2001; 50:976-9.
14. CDC. Progress toward the elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome-the Americas, 2003-2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008; 57:1176-9.
15. Sadowska-Galera M. Initial results and evaluation of IgG antibody levels for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox viruses in young adults born in 1989. [Article in Polish]. Przegl Epidemiol 2009; 63:363-7.
16. Reef S. The importance of implementing, monitoring, and evaluating congenital rubella syndrome surveillance. J Pediatrics Infect Dis 2007; 2:1-2.
17. Doshi S, Khetsuriani N, Zakhashvili K, Baidoshvili L, Imnadze P, Uzicanin A. Ongoing measles and rubella transmission in Georgia, 2004-05: implications for the national and regional elimination efforts. Int J Epidemiol 2009; 38:182-91.
18. Yeung L, Lurie P, Dayan G, et al. A limited measles outbreak in a highly vaccinated US boarding school. Pediatrics 2005; 116:1287-91.
19. Spika J, Hanon F, Wassilak S, Pebody R, Emiroglu N. Peventing congenital rubella in the European Region of WHO: 2010 Target. Eurosurveillance 2004; 9:4-5.