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  • Title: Congenital rubella in Israel following the 1978-79 rubella epidemic.
    Author: Brand N, Legum S, Saunders J, Fogel A.
    Journal: Isr J Med Sci; 1983 Oct; 19(10):925-8. PubMed ID: 6662676.
    Abstract:
    We conducted a retrospective survey of children who were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CR) resulting from a recent rubella epidemic. Sources of information were hospital and laboratory records and data collected in an active search for deaf children born following the epidemic and attending rehabilitation centers for the deaf (Micha). Criteria for inclusion in the survey were: 1) major clinical defects, and 2) one or more of the following positive laboratory findings--virus isolation, presence of rubella-specific IgM antibodies, or the presence of hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies in children beyond the age of 1 year. Excluded from the study were 28 children with persistent HI antibodies, but without clinically detected defects. CR was identified in 45, among them 43 with deafness. Other major defects were psychomotor retardation, microcephaly, cataracts and heart defects. Transient abnormalities included encephalitis, hepatosplenomegaly, jaundice, thrombocytopenia, intrauterine grown retardation and failure to thrive. Thirty-one mothers (70%) reported a history of clinical rubella in pregnancy, the others having experienced subclinical infection. Multiple defects were found in children born following early gestational rubella (less than 2 months); abnormalities also occurred as a consequence of rubella as late as the fifth month of gestation.
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