Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance.

BACKGROUND:Government of India is committed to eliminate measles and control rubella/congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2020. In 2016, CRS surveillance was established in five sentinel sites. We analyzed surveillance data to describe the epidemiology of CRS in India. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS...

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Main Authors: Manoj Murhekar, Sanjay Verma, Kuldeep Singh, Ashish Bavdekar, Naveen Benakappa, Sridhar Santhanam, Gajanan Sapkal, Rajlakshmi Viswanathan, Mini P Singh, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag, Sadanand Naik, Munivenkatappa Ashok, Asha Mary Abraham, Devika Shanmugasundaram, R Sabarinathan, Valsan Philip Verghese, Suji George, Ravinder Kaur Sachdeva, Jyoti Kolekar, S Manasa, Jagat Ram, Madhu Gupta, Manoj K Rohit, Praveen Kumar, Parul Chawla Gupta, R K Ratho, Sanjay Kumar Munjal, Urvashi Nehra, Daisy Khera, Neeraj Gupta, Nidhi Kaushal, Pratibha Singh, Ravisekhar Gadepalli, Neelam Vaid, Sandeep Kadam, Sanjay Shah, S Mahantesh, Vykuntaraju K Gowda, Pradeep Haldar, M K Aggarwal, Nivedita Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-02-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007982