Horizontal transmission of the Leningrad-Zagreb mumps vaccine strain: a report of six symptomatic cases of parotitis and one case of meningitis.

Alina Atrasheuskaya, Mikhail Kulak, Elena G Fisenko, Igor Karpov, George Ignatyev, Alena Atrasheuskaya

Belarusian State Medical University, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Kropotkina str., b.76, Minsk 220050, Belarus. alina.atrasheuskaya@mail.ru

Vaccine 2012 Aug 3

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Here we report horizontal symptomatic transmission of the Leningrad-Zagreb (L-Zagreb) mumps vaccine virus. Children who were the source of transmission had been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine (Serum Institute of India) contained L-Zagreb mumps virus. This is the first report of horizontal symptomatic transmission of this vaccine. The etiology of all seven contact cases was confirmed by epidemiological linking, serology and by F, SH, NP and HN mumps virus genes sequencing. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Alina Atrasheuskaya, Mikhail Kulak, Elena G Fisenko, Igor Karpov, George Ignatyev, Alena Atrasheuskaya. Horizontal transmission of the Leningrad-Zagreb mumps vaccine strain: a report of six symptomatic cases of parotitis and one case of meningitis. Vaccine. 2012 Aug 3;30(36):5324-6