Measles in suburban Khartoum: an epidemiological and clinical study |
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| Authors: | Ibrahim S A Mustafa O M Mukhtar M M Saleh E A El Mubarak H S Abdallah A El-Hassan A M Osterhaus A D M E Groen J De Swart R L Zijlstra E E |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. |
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| Abstract: | Clinical and epidemiological data were collected from 187 clinically diagnosed measles patients in Haj Yousif area, suburban Khartoum. Laboratory tests confirmed the diagnosis in 141 (75%) of the cases, but demonstrated that in 46 (25%) patients the clinical symptoms were not caused by an acute measles virus (MV) infection. According to their vaccination card, 59% of the laboratory-confirmed measles cases had been vaccinated for measles. Compared with non-measles rash disease cases, confirmed measles cases more often had severe illness (P < 0.0001), were dehydrated (P=0.01) at presentation and less likely to recover without complications [OR 0.19 (95% CI 0.09, 0.39)]. There was no difference in death rate (P=0.20). Underweight [weight-for-age Z score (WAZ)
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| Keywords: | measles epidemiology diagnosis Sudan |
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