Euro Surveill. Two cases of mild IgM-negative measles in previously vaccinated adults, the Netherlands, April and July 2011

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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 48, 01 December 2011

Rapid communications


Two cases of mild IgM-negative measles in previously vaccinated adults, the Netherlands, April and July 2011


A van den Hoek ()<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, G J Sonder<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, M Scholing<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, DB Gijselaar<SUP>4</SUP>, R S van Binnendijk<SUP>4</SUP>

1. Public Health Service Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2. Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
3. Onze Lieve Vrouw Gasthuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
4. Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: van den Hoek A, Sonder GJ, Scholing M, Gijselaar D, van Binnendijk RS. Two cases of mild IgM-negative measles in previously vaccinated adults, the Netherlands, April and July 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(48)ii=20028. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20028
Date of submission: 08 November 2011 <HR>We describe two cases of mild, modified measles in fully vaccinated adults in the Netherlands. The mildness of disease, the lack of an IgM antibody response, the relatively low amounts of virus detected and the fact that no additional cases were reported, suggests that these vaccinated patients were less contagious than unvaccinated patients.
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