Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance.

• Main Authors: Manoj Murhekar (Author), Sanjay Verma (Author), Kuldeep Singh (Author), Ashish Bavdekar (Author), Naveen Benakappa (Author), Sridhar Santhanam (Author), Gajanan Sapkal (Author), Rajlakshmi Viswanathan (Author), Mini P Singh (Author), Vijaya Lakshmi Nag (Author), Sadanand Naik (Author), Munivenkatappa Ashok (Author), Asha Mary Abraham (Author), Devika Shanmugasundaram (Author), R Sabarinathan (Author), Valsan Philip Verghese (Author), Suji George (Author), Ravinder Kaur Sachdeva (Author), Jyoti Kolekar (Author), S Manasa (Author), Jagat Ram (Author), Madhu Gupta (Author), Manoj K Rohit (Author), Praveen Kumar (Author), Parul Chawla Gupta (Author), R K Ratho (Author), Sanjay Kumar Munjal (Author), Urvashi Nehra (Author), Daisy Khera (Author), Neeraj Gupta (Author), Nidhi Kaushal (Author), Pratibha Singh (Author), Ravisekhar Gadepalli (Author), Neelam Vaid (Author), Sandeep Kadam (Author), Sanjay Shah (Author), S Mahantesh (Author), Vykuntaraju K Gowda (Author), Pradeep Haldar (Author), M K Aggarwal (Author), Nivedita Gupta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Government of India is committed to eliminate measles and control rubella/congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2020. In 2016, CRS surveillance was established in five sentinel sites. We analyzed surveillance data to describe the epidemiology of CRS in India. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS...