Implications of suboptimal measles immunity in UK health-care workers.
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Ho, AntoniaGalgut, Oliver
Faustini, Sian
Peters, Nicholas
Shields, Adrian
Klenerman, Paul
Hopkins, Susan
Hall, Victoria
Dunachie, Susanna
Richter, Alex
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2024-06-26Subject
Communicable diseasesMicrobiology. Immunology
Public health. Health statistics. Occupational health. Health education
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The UK Health Security Agency declared the rapid increase in measles cases a national incident on Jan 19, 2024.1 We found in two cohorts of UK health-care workers that measles immunity is currently suboptimal. The VIBRANT study, which was a substudy of the national UK SIREN study,2 examined the immune system of 200 health-care workers recruited from NHS hospitals across the UK (cohort 1; median age 51 years [IQR 42–58], 161 [81%] were female and 39 [19%] were male). Of these 200 participants, six (3%) were negative for the measles antibody and eight (4%) had equivocal resultsCitation
Ho A, Galgut O, Faustini S, Peters N, Shields A, Klenerman P, Hopkins S, Hall V, Dunachie S, Richter A. Implications of suboptimal measles immunity in UK health-care workers. Lancet. 2024 Jul 6;404(10447):23-24. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01011-0.Type
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