Rubella Immunity among Pregnant Women in a Canadian Provincial Screening Program

Mark J Kearns; Sabrina S Plitt; Bonita E Lee; Joan L Robinson

doi:10.1155/2009/901372

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Jan 2009)

Rubella Immunity among Pregnant Women in a Canadian Provincial Screening Program

Mark J Kearns,
Sabrina S Plitt,
Bonita E Lee,
Joan L Robinson

Affiliations

Mark J Kearns: Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sabrina S Plitt: Centre for Communicable Disease and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Bonita E Lee: Provincial Public Health Laboratory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Joan L Robinson: Provincial Public Health Laboratory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/901372
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 20, no. 3
pp. 73 – 77

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: There are limited recent data on rubella immunity in women of childbearing age in Canada. In the present paper, the proportion of rubella seroreactivity and redundant testing (testing of women previously seropositive when tested by the same physician) in the Alberta prenatal rubella screening program were studied.

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

ISSN: 1712-9532 (Print); 1918-1493 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575

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