Assessment of mumps-containing vaccine effectiveness during an outbreak: Importance to introduce the 2-dose schedule for China

• Main Authors: Chao Ma (Author), Yan Liu (Author), Jihai Tang (Author), Haimei Jia (Author), Wei Qin (Author), Ying Su (Author), Huaqing Wang (Author), Lixin Hao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: China has used 3 different mumps-containing vaccines (MuCV) since 1990: monovalent mumps vaccine, measles-mumps (MM) vaccine, and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and one dose MuCV (using MMR at 18 months) has been included in the EPI since 2007. MuCV effectiveness has been of conc...