What do we need to eradicate rubella in the Islamic Republic of Iran?

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To evaluate the need for congenital rubella syndrome prevention in our national health programme we aimed to determine the rate of anti-rubella positivity in umbilical cord blood samples 8 years after measles-rubella mass vaccination in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a cross-sectional study we tested umbilical cord blood samples for anti-rubella IgG and IgM by ELISA in 154 deliveries at a university hospital in Tehran. Overall 72.7% of umbilical cord blood samples were positive for anti-rubella IgG and 27.3% were negative. All of the samples were negative for anti-rubella IgM. In the samples with a history of mothers' rubella vaccination, only 87.5% were positive for anti-rubella IgG. The results suggest the need for another mass vaccination for rubella in women of child-bearing age and continuation of routine vaccination of infants, plus consideration of obligatory anti-rubella IgG testing before pregnancy in women who were not vaccinated and vaccination of women before marriage.

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Almassinokiani, F., Noorbakhsh, S., Rezaei, M., Almasi, A., Akbari, H., Asadolla, S., … Saberifard, M. (2013). What do we need to eradicate rubella in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 19(9), 807–811. https://doi.org/10.26719/2013.19.9.807

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