Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (Mar 2021)

Ongoing rubella epidemic in Osaka, Japan in 2018–2019

  • Daiki Kanbayashi,
  • Takako Kurata,
  • Hideyuki Kubo,
  • Atsushi Kaida,
  • Seiji P Yamamoto,
  • Kazutaka Egawa,
  • Yuki Hirai,
  • Kazuma Okada,
  • Ryo Ikemori,
  • Takahiro Yumisashi,
  • Akira Yamamoto,
  • Hideki Yoshida,
  • Takanori Hirayama,
  • Kazuyoshi Ikuta,
  • Kazushi Motomura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2019.10.3.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. 48 – 50

Abstract

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A large rubella epidemic is currently ongoing since 2018 in Osaka, Japan. The detected rubella viruses were classified into genotypes 1E lineage 2 and 2B lineage 1. These strains may have been imported from endemic countries, and these viruses spread within the susceptible population.

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