OBJECTIVE To assess whether antibiotics should be given to all children with measles in communities with a high case fatality rate. DESIGN Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials that compared routine antibiotic prophylaxis with no antibiotic treatment or selective treatment of pneumonia or sepsis. SUBJECTS Six trials of children admitted to hospital with measles: five in Glasgow, Lon...

Immunosuppression after measles is known to predispose people to opportunistic infections for a period of several weeks to months. Using population-level data, we show that measles has a more prolonged effect on host resistance, extending over 2 to 3 years. We find that nonmeasles infectious disease mortality in high-income countries is tightly coupled to measles incidence at this lag, in both ...

BACKGROUND Despite the implementation of mass school catch-up campaigns for measles in Canada, an outbreak of measles occurred in early 1997 mostly affecting the adult population. The higher incidence in Canada in adults led us to compare immunization policies and the evolution of measles among adults in Canada and the US. METHODS Based on information gathered from both national immunization ...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact on measles case incidence of a nationwide measles immunization campaign in Viet Nam, while considering differences in disease surveillance before and after the campaign. METHODS A nationwide mass immunization campaign was conducted in the north and south of Viet Nam in 2002 and 2003, respectively. During the campaign, a second vaccination dose was given to childr...

Serological samples of healthy people were collected to obtain the levels of measles antibodies in different groups of people in Heilongjiang Province, China. Using quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays to measure the antibody levels, we found the lowest antibody positive rate and the lowest geometric mean concentration values in healthy people aged 15-39. This group is the population...

The objective of our paper is to review the epidemiology of measles in Singapore and the impact of the measles vaccination program on the control of measles. Our review will form the basis for a critical appraisal of our future measles control program. We analyzed the trend of reported measles cases in relationship to measles vaccination coverage from 1981 to 2004 using routine measles notifica...

BACKGROUND In 2011 the largest measles outbreak in North America in a decade occurred in Quebec, Canada with over 700 cases. In contrast, measles activity in neighbouring province Ontario remained low (8 cases). Our objective was to determine the extent to which the difference could be explained by differing travel patterns. METHODS We explored the relationship between measles cases over 2007...

INTRODUCTION Efforts at immunizing children against measles was intensified in Nigeria with nation-wide measles vaccination campaigns in 2005-2006, 2008 and 2011 targeting children between 9 and 59 months. However, there were measles outbreaks in 2010 and 2011 in Abia state Nigeria. This study seeks to find out if there is any association between measles immunization coverage and measles outbre...

In Moscow, as in Russia, 2019 there was an increase the incidence of measles recent years. Purpose: to analyze course children hospitalized during period rising incidence. Materials and methods: a retrospective analysis statistical processing 30 case histories with infectious diseases department Children's City Clinical Hospital № 9 named after G.N. Speransky 2019. Results: More than half patie...