Textbooks, Guidelines, and Publications

Textbooks and Guidelines

• Rubella in Healthcare Settings
  General information and measures to prevent transmission of Rubella in healthcare facilities
• Pink Book (Chapter 12 - Rubella)
  The Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
• Surveillance Manual (Chapter 11 - Rubella)
  Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • Appendix 15: Collection of Specimens for Typing of Rubella Virus 
  • Appendix 16: Rubella Surveillance Worksheet
  • Appendix 17: Congenital Rubella Surveillance Case Report

Publications

Molecular Epidemiology

• Zheng D-P, Zhu H, Gerna G, Frey TK. Phylogenetic analysis of rubella virus isolated during a period of epidemic transmission in Italy, 1991-1997. JID 2003;187:1587-1597.
• Hofmann J, Renz M, Meyer S, von Haeseler A, Liebert UG. Phylogenetic analysis of rubella virus including new genotype I. Virus Res 2003;96:123-128.
• Donadio FF, Siqueira MM, Vyse A, Jin L, Oliveira SA. The genomic analysis of rubella virus detected from outbreak and sporadic cases in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Jrl Clin Virol 2002;27:205-209.
• Reef SE, Frey TK, Theall K et al. The changing epidemiology of rubella in the 1990s: On the verge of elimination and new challenges for control and prevention. JAMA 2002;287:464-472.
• Frey TK, Abernathy ES, Bosma TJ, et al. Molecular analysis of rubella virus epidemiology across three continents, North America, Europe, and Asia, 1961-1997. Jrl Inf Dis 1998;178:642-650.

Serology and Diagnostics

• Best JM, O'Shea S, Tipples G et al. Interpretation of rubella serology in pregnancy-pitfalls and problems. BMJ 2002;325:147-148.
• Enders G. Serologic test combinations for safe detection of rubella infections. Rev Inf Dis 1985;7(1):S113-S122.

Surveillance programs

• Irons B, Carrasco P, Morris-Glasgow V, Castillo-Solórzano C, de Quadros CA. Integrating measles and rubella surveillance: The experience in the Caribbean. JID 2003:187;S153-S157.
• Pan American Health Organization. Measles and rubella surveillance: Integration in the Americas. EPI Newsl 2000;22:4-5.

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