Antibody prevalence to mumps in children and adolescents at two years of the introduction of the MMR vaccine

• Main Authors: Armando Méndez-Herrera (Author), Eloísa Arias-Toledo (Author), Miguel Sánchez-Alemán (Author), Ma. Leonidez Olamendi-Portugal (Author), Juan Ruiz-Gómez (Author), José Luis Díaz-Ortega (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective. To assess the prevalence of mumps antibodies in children and adolescents of Mexico, two years after the introduction of the mumps-containing vaccine MMR. Ma­terials and methods. Evaluation of IgG antibodies with a commercial kit of indirect ELISA. Results. 2 111 children (1-9 years) and 2...