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| Susan E ReefSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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The changing epidemiology of rubella in the 1990s: on the verge of elimination and new challenges for control and preventionSusan E Reef
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E 61, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 287:464-72. 2002..Reported rubella cases are at record low levels; however, cases and outbreaks have occurred, primarily among unvaccinated foreign-born adults...
Evidence used to support the achievement and maintenance of elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the United StatesSusan E Reef
Global Immunization Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 204:S593-7. 2011..Rigorous data evaluation must be conducted to look for inconsistencies among the available data. To maintain elimination, countries should maintain high vaccine coverage, adequate surveillance, and rapid response to outbreaks...- The evidence for the elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the United States: a public health achievementSusan E Reef
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S123-5. 2006 - The epidemiological profile of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the United States, 1998-2004: the evidence for absence of endemic transmissionSusan E Reef
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S126-32. 2006..The epidemiological evidence strongly supports the claim that rubella is no longer endemic in the United States. To prevent future rubella outbreaks and CRS cases, current strategies must be maintained... 
Identifying risk factors for rubella susceptibility in a population at risk in the United StatesM Carolina Danovaro-Holliday
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Public Health 93:289-91. 2003- Genetic analysis of rubella viruses found in the United States between 1966 and 2004: evidence that indigenous rubella viruses have been eliminatedJoseph P Icenogle
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S133-40. 2006.... - Measles outbreak associated with an international youth sporting event in the United States, 2007Tai Ho Chen
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:794-800. 2010..In 2007, the initiation of a multistate measles outbreak was associated with an imported case occurring in a participant at an international youth sporting event held in Pennsylvania... - Efforts at rubella elimination in the United States: the impact of hemispheric rubella controlGustavo H Dayan
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S158-63. 2006..Implementation of rubella control strategies in the Americas, particularly in Mexico, appears to have facilitated rubella elimination in the United States... - Virologic surveillance for wild-type rubella viruses in the AmericasJoseph P Icenogle
Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 204:S647-51. 2011..For example, identification of vaccine virus in specimens from rash and fever cases found during elimination can identify such cases as vaccine associated... - Persistence of rubella antibodies after 2 doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccineCharles W LeBaron
Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 200:888-99. 2009..Elimination of endemic rubella virus circulation in the United States was declared in 2004. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the short- and long-term rubella immunogenicity of MMR2... - Development of a rubella vaccination strategy: contribution of a rubella susceptibility study of women of childbearing age in Kyrgyzstan, 2001Naile Malakmadze
Polio Eradication Branch, Global Immunization Division, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:1780-3. 2004..After considering all available information, we suggested vaccination of women aged <35 years and selective vaccination of older women who were planning pregnancy... - Adverse events associated with smallpox vaccination in the United States, January-October 2003Christine G Casey
Smallpox Vaccine Adverse Event Monitoring and Response Activity, Epidemiology and Surveillance Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 294:2734-43. 2005.... - Rubella immunity levels in the United States population: has the threshold of viral elimination been reached?Terri B Hyde
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S146-50. 2006..8% to 88.0%; P=.84). In 1999-2004, population rubella immunity levels were at or above the modeled threshold for elimination of rubella virus transmission. Increases in immunity levels are consistent with vaccination efforts... - Adequacy of surveillance to detect endemic rubella transmission in the United StatesFrancisco Averhoff
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:S151-7. 2006..It is necessary to validate that the observed absence of rubella is due to the disappearance of disease rather than a failure of rubella surveillance... - Guidance for isolation precautions for mumps in the United States: a review of the scientific basis for policy changePreeta K Kutty
Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Infect Dis 50:1619-28. 2010..Updated guidance, released in 2007-2008, changed the mumps isolation period from 9 to 5 days. It is now recommended that mumps patients be isolated and standard and droplet precautions be followed for 5 days after parotitis onset... - Teratology: from science to birth defects preventionSonja A Rasmussen
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85:82-92. 2009.... - Elimination of rubella from the United States: a milestone on the road to global eliminationH Cody Meissner
Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 117:933-5. 2006 - Congenital rubella syndrome in a child born to Liberian refugees: clinical and public health perspectivesRachel N Plotinsky
Division of Public Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Concord, NH, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 46:349-55. 2007..Clinicians should maintain vigilance for congenital rubella syndrome in infants with relevant stigmata, particularly those whose mothers are from countries with nonexistent or recently implemented rubella vaccination programs...