- Title
- Measles with a possible 23 day incubation period
- Creator
- Fitzgerald, Tove L.; Durrheim, David N.; Merritt, Tony D.; Birch, Christopher; Tran, Thomas
- Relation
- Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report Vol. 36, Issue 3
- Relation
- http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3603g.htm
- Publisher
- Australian Government. Department of Health and Ageing. Office of Health Protection, Surveillance Branch
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Measles virus (MV) eradication is biologically, technically and operationally feasible. An essential feature in understanding the chain of MV transmission is its incubation period, that is, the time from infection to the onset of symptoms. This period is important for determining the likely source of infection and directing public health measures to interrupt ongoing transmission. Long measles incubation periods have rarely been documented in the literature. We report on a previously healthy 11-year-old Australian boy who was confirmed with measles genotype D9 infection following travel in the Philippines. Epidemiological evidence supported an unusually long incubation period of at least 23 days and virological evidence was consistent with this finding. Although public health control measures such as post exposure prophylaxis, isolation and surveillance of susceptible individuals should continue to be based on the more common incubation period, a longer incubation period may occasionally explain an unexpected measles case.
- Subject
- measles; incubation period; elimination; epidemiology; genotyping
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067055
- Identifier
- uon:18290
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-4514
- Language
- eng
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