Mumps outbreak in young adults following a village festival in the Navarra region, Spain, August 2006

Since October 2006, the Spanish National Reference Laboratory has reported a series of isolations of Salmonella Kottbus on the island of Gran Canaria [1]. The fact that most of the cases were in infants under one year of age and needed hospitalisation, caused significant concern among the general pu...

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Autores: Gerstel, L, Lenglet, Annick, Garcia-Cenoz, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Repositorio:Repisalud
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/9019
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/9019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Adolescent
Adult
Disease Outbreaks
Female
Humans
Immunization, Secondary
Immunoglobulin G
Immunoglobulin M
Male
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Mumps
Mumps Vaccine
Mumps virus
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Spain
Vaccination
Vaccines, Attenuated
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Sumario:Since October 2006, the Spanish National Reference Laboratory has reported a series of isolations of Salmonella Kottbus on the island of Gran Canaria [1]. The fact that most of the cases were in infants under one year of age and needed hospitalisation, caused significant concern among the general public. Information published in the media contributed to this alarm. Outbreaks due to this Salmonella serotype are rare in the literature with only five outbreaks published since 1959 [2-6]. No cases of Salmonella Kottbus had been isolated and reported in Spain since 1996 [7,8]. We decided to conduct epidemiological and environmental studies to describe the characteristics of the cases and to determine the possible source of infection.