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A study of immunity to rubella in villages in the Fiji Islands using the haemagglutination inhibition test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

F. N. Macnamara ,
R. Mitchell  and
J. A. R. Miles
F. N. Macnamara
Affiliation:
Wellcome Virus Laboratory, Suva, Fiji and Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
R. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Wellcome Virus Laboratory, Suva, Fiji and Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
J. A. R. Miles
Affiliation:
Wellcome Virus Laboratory, Suva, Fiji and Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In the villages of Fiji, apart from Viti Levu, rubella is a disease occurring solely in widely spaced epidemics. Some villages may not be infected for over 20 years and will then contain substantial numbers of susceptible women of child-bearing age.

Evidence is produced that haemagglutination-inhibiting (H.I.) antibody to rubella is very long lasting in Fijians. The infectivity of the virus is discussed and it is suggested that, on the average, 50% of susceptibles are infected in a Fijian village during a rubella epidemic, but there are large variations.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , December 1973 , pp. 825 - 831
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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