The analysis of epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 112 cases patients with adult-measles
- VernacularTitle:成人麻疹112例流行病学和临床特征
- Author:
Xiao-Hua CHEN
;
Jie XU
;
Guo-Qing ZANG
;
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Measles;
Clinical characteristic;
Epidemiology;
Vaccines
- From:
Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases
2001;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To analyze the clinical data of 112 patients with adult-measles in the Af- filiated Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital and Third People's Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University from January to June in 2005,and to evaluate the epidemiologieal and clinical characteristics of adult- measles.Methods To retrospectively analyze the clinical data of 112 patients with adult-measles. Results Totally,112 measles patients were involved in this study,with male 63 and female 49 re- spectively.The gender rate was 1.3:1,average age about 32 years and the proportion of non-resi- dents was 40.18%.The peak of the incidence of disease emerged in April and May,and the positive rate of measle virus IgM antibody in serum was 96.43%.There were 97 patients(86.61%)who had the fever that beyond 39℃and 36 patients(32.14%)who had measle caused viral hepatitis.Conclu- sions There is a trend that the ages of patients that suffered from measle were postponed and the in cidences of disease are increased year by year,which maybe related to the nonstandard inoculation of measle vaccine,or the decrease of IgM antibody levels and so on.Meanwhile,serious toxemie symp- toms and liver damage can be observed.
