Increasing mumps incidence rates among children and adolescents in the Republic of Korea: age–period–cohort analysis

Background: To characterize the temporal dynamics of mumps epidemiology according to the different vaccine strains used, sex-specific trends were decomposed in an age–period–cohort (APC) analysis for mumps cases reported in South Korea. Methods: National surveillance data were used to describe the e...

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Main Authors: Young-June Choe, Young Hwa Lee, Sung-Il Cho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971217300577