Rubella antibody loss rates in Korean children

Epidemiol. Infect. (2002), 129, 557–564. f 2002 Cambridge University Press DOI : 10.1017/S0950268802007811 Printed in the United Kingdom

Rubella antibody loss rates in Korean children

M. K I 1, M. H. K IM 1, B. Y. C HO I 2*, Y. J. S H IN 2

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T. PA R K 3

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Department of Preventive Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejon, Korea Department of Preventive Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 3 Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2

(Accepted 15 July 2002) SUMMARY We followed students in eight elementary schools for rubella antibody from 1993 to 1996 (602 pairs) and 1996–9 (588 pairs) in Gyeonggi Province, Korea. We tested rubella IgG and administered rubella vaccine to the children with the titres