Measles cases among adolescents in southern Pakistan 2012-2015: The case for revisiting vaccination strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Surveillance of adult measles in Pakistan is a challenge as it does not enjoy the status of a reportable disease unlike childhood cases and therefore cases remain undetected and unreported or misdiagnosed. Consequently no data or estimates of young adult cases, seroprevalence, or estimates of susceptible preadolescent or young adult population exist. We have presented both laboratory conformed and clinically suspected cases of measles occurring in adolescents and adults in the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan.

Methods

Through an examination of 2 independent databases, i.e. a laboratory database of measles IgM positive cases and clinically detected cases on surveillance performed by the Disease Early Warning System, we have analyzed and reported age-specific positi

SUBMITTER: Shakoor S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512792 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature