PROBLEM/CONDITION CDC monitors the incidence of mumps in the United States through the passive reporting of cases to its National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS). REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 1988-1993. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Weekly reports to the NNDSS from 48 states and the District of Columbia were used to calculate incidence rates for mumps. State immunization requirements wer...

A new immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody capture enzyme immunoassay with peroxidase-labeled mumps antigen (dMACEIA) is described, and its suitability for practical diagnosis of acute mumps infection is evaluated. All 54 patients with proven mumps infection that were tested showed mumps-specific IgM antibodies. On the other hand, no specific IgM antibodies were present in 16 cases of suspected mump...

three differentes continous cell lines (am 57. hela • vero) and primary cell culture of human embryo kidney are compared with regard to their .susceptibility for isolation of mumps v i r u s from saliva and cerebrospinal fluid. for this purfose the vero cell line appeared to be more suitable among the studied cell systems regarding the following reasons: it allows the highest pourcentage of mum...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The reports from the countries where mumps vaccine is given as routine immunization suggest differences in mumps virus neutralizing antibody titres when tested with vaccine and wild type viruses. Such reports are unavailable from countries like India where mumps vaccine is not included in routine immunization. We, therefore, undertook this study to understand the cross-n...

BACKGROUND Deafness is a rare but important complication of mumps virus infection. Its incidence has been estimated at 0.5 to 5.0 per 100,000 cases of mumps, but recent reports from Japan, where mumps is endemic, suggest that the incidence might be higher. OBJECTIVE Prospective office-based study to determine the incidence of hearing loss in children with mumps. METHODS Forty pediatric prac...

109 Introduction Mumps is a common childhood infection caused by the mumps virus. The hallmark of the infection is swelling of the parotid gland. Aseptic meningitis and encephalitis are common complications of mumps together with orchitis and oophoritis. Other complications include deafness and pancreatitis . Although deafness is a rare complication of mumps, it is still one of the most common ...

Mumps-specific antibody levels before and after vaccination with live mumps vaccines were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and neutralization tests. A correlation was found between neutralization titers and optical density in ELISA. However, postvaccination sera from some vaccinees who failed to seroconvert by neutralization contained significant levels of mumps-specific ...

JUSTIFICATION Mumps, despite being a widely prevalent disease in the country, is considered as an insignificant public health problem mainly because of poor documentation of clinical cases and lack of published studies. In the absence of adequate published data on disease burden, Government of India has recently decided to introduce measles-rubella (MR) vaccine in its National Immunization Prog...

mass vaccination against viral infections such as mumps is a very noticeable and appropriate attempt in common health. mumps infection has severe complications like deafness, infertility and meningitis. attenuated live vaccine of mumps is produced and used to prevent the problems. viral content in the monovalent vaccine is assayed with different methods. nowadays international standards introdu...

Mumps outbreaks in recent years have given rise to questions about the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine. This study examined the epidemiological data from a recent mumps outbreak in Israel and from outbreaks in other countries with high vaccination coverage, and considered whether long-established vaccination policies designed to protect against mumps are in need of revision. Of over 5000 cas...