Protective effect of vaccination against mumps complications, Czech Republic, 2007–2012

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Research article
Protective effect of vaccination against mumps complications, Czech Republic, 2007–2012
In the Czech Republic, two-dose immunization against mumps achieves 98 % coverage. The routine reporting detects mumps cases, clinical complications, and hospital admissions in unvaccinated but also in vaccinated individuals. Using surveillance data of patients with mumps we assessed the effectiveness of mumps vaccination on mumps clinical complications and hospitalization need. We also investigated the effect of the time since immunization
Hana Orlíková, Marek Malý, Pavla Lexová, Helena Šebestová, Radomíra Limberková, Lucie Jurzykowská and Jan Kynčl
BMC Public Health 2016 16:293
Published on: 1 April 2016