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  • Title: Measles--an experience in Sandakan Hospital, Sabah, 1990.
    Author: Khoo A, Ho CK, Ong TK, Khairul A.
    Journal: Singapore Med J; 1994 Dec; 35(6):595-8. PubMed ID: 7761883.
    Abstract:
    A descriptive study of 143 cases of clinically diagnosed measles in patients under the age of 12 years admitted to the Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan, Sabah, during the year 1990 was carried out. The median age of the patients was one year and 13.3% of the cases were between the ages of 6 and 9 months. The male to female ratio was 1.3:1. The majority of the cases (85.3%) were not immunised against measles while 60.0% of the cases were malnourished. Most of the cases (86.0%) had at least one complication with 32.9% of the cases having more than one complications. The main complications were pneumonia (74.1%) and diarrhea (38.5%). Other complications were convulsions, otitis media and corneal ulceration/scarring. A case of pneumonia with mediastinal emphysema and subcutaneous emphysema was noted. The case fatality rate was 1.4% while blindness was the long term morbidity in 1.4% of the cases. Measles remains an important cause of morbidity in children in Sabah.
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