| Literature DB >> 4520516 |
F N Macnamara, R Mitchell, J A Miles.
Abstract
In the villages of Fiji, apart from Viti Levu, rubella is a disease occurring solely in widely spaced epidemics. Some villages may not be infected for over 20 years and will then contain substantial numbers of susceptible women of child-bearing age.Evidence is produced that haemagglutination-inhibiting (H.I.) antibody to rubella is very long lasting in Fijians. The infectivity of the virus is discussed and it is suggested that, on the average, 50% of susceptibles are infected in a Fijian village during a rubella epidemic, but there are large variations.Entities:
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Year: 1973 PMID： 4520516 PMCID： PMC2130425 DOI： 10.1017/s0022172400023081
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hyg (Lond) ISSN： 0022-1724