Characteristics of reported mumps cases in the United States: 2018-2023.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This paper highlights recent clinical complications of mumps reported in the United States and summarizes appropriate confirmatory testing for mumps, encouraging vigilance for mumps disease, an endemic vaccine-preventable illness.

Methods

Surveillance data from jurisdictions reporting confirmed and probable cases of mumps in the United States were descriptively analyzed to assess epidemiologic trends from January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2023. Data were reported to the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System and the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Project O. Cases were classified according to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists 2011 mumps case definition.

Results

From 2018-2023, United States health departments reported 8,006 con

SUBMITTER: Tappe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11457128 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature