An outbreak of measles in a university in Korea, 2014

Young June Choe; Young Joon Park; Ju Whi Kim; Hye Eun Eom; Ok Park; Myoung Don Oh; Jong Koo Lee

doi:10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876

An outbreak of measles in a university in Korea, 2014

Young June Choe, Young Joon Park, Ju Whi Kim, Hye Eun Eom, Ok Park, Myoung Don Oh, Jong Koo Lee

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Abstract

Measles has been declared eliminated from the Korea since 2006. In April 2014, a measles outbreak occurred at a University in Seoul. A total of 85 measles cases were identified. In order to estimate vaccine effectiveness of measles vaccine, we reviewed the vaccination records of the university students. The vaccine effectiveness of two doses of measles containing vaccine was 60.0% (95% CI, 38.2-74.1 P < 0.05). Transmission was interrupted after the introduction of outbreak-response immunization. The outbreak shows that pockets of under-immunity among college students may have facilitated the disease transmission despite the high 2-dose vaccination coverage in the community.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1876-1878
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Korean Medical Science
Volume	32
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876
State	Published - 1 Nov 2017

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Keywords

College
Korea
MMR
Measles
Outbreak
University

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An outbreak of measles in a university in Korea, 2014

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