(n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(2) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
(3) This is the first case of a fulminant phase of mumps ventriculitis leading to aqueductal stenosis, which has been treated using a ventriculoscope for the first time.
(4) The antibody response to the measles component was marginally better in the older group, but no differences were observed in the response to the mumps and rubella components.
(5) MUMPS has an impressive data storage capability and handling when used in a personal computer (PC) network.
(6) In the group with a past history of mumps orchitis these parameters did not show any difference when compared with controls.
(7) Sensitization to avian and other animal proteins and antibiotics which may follow the use of most of the currently available measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, either single or combined, may be expected to be eliminated when this new vaccine is used.
(8) In the 3-5 year-old group, rural environment, low socioeconomic status, no school attendance and lack of brothers were associated with statistically lower levels of measles, rubella, or mumps infection.
(9) Measles infection prevalence was significantly higher than that for rubella and mumps from 3 (48.3%, 14.2%, 25.5%, respectively) through 7 years of age, (64%, 40.9%, 39%).
(10) Series reporting exclusively disease due to mumps and LCM have a higher frequency of hypoglycorrhachia.
(11) Recruitment who were born after 1969 lacked measles, mumps, and rubella antibodies more often than older recruits.
(12) Spontaneous production of mumps ELISA antibodies in lymphocyte culture increased after vaccination and substantially higher levels of antibodies were produced when lymphocytes were stimulated with mumps virus after vaccination.
(13) No significant differences between the two groups were found for any of the three methods used to estimate previous exposure to mumps virus.
(14) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
(15) This assumes that vaccine would be administered only once with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, that there would be no increase in the number of varicella cases in older persons who are at increased risk for complications, and that there would be no deleterious effect on the occurrence and severity of herpes zoster.
(16) The infection with measles and mumps viruses induced the release of interleukin-1 (IL-1) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by the cell line as assessed by a bioassay and up-regulated the expression of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II antigens as evaluated by cytofluorimetric analysis.
(17) It was showed that there was a mumps outbreak in large area of Hubei in 1987.
(18) Infection control problems caused by mumps were reported from 17 (12%) of 146 hospitals.
(19) Sixty-four patients undergoing elective surgery (indications: 35 with aneurysms, 27 with aortoiliac disease, and two with renovascular disease) and nine patients undergoing emergency operation (indications: two with ruptured aneurysms, seven with aortoenteric fistulas) were skin tested when admitted to the hospital with five ubiquitous antigens (Candida, mumps, tuberculin, Trichophyton, and streptokinase-streptodornase [Varidase]) and read at 24 and 48 hours.
(20) 1) We report 5 cases of aseptic meningitis following vaccination against mumps.
Rubella
Definition:
(n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hemagglutinating (HA) activity of rubella virus was inactivated with 2-mercaptoethanol (2ME) in a dose-dependent manner.
(2) The reported case of fetal infection in spite of previous rubella vaccination of the mother does not discourage the use of rubella vaccine.
(3) Tilorone alone, or with rubella, had no effect on any of the parameters studied.
(4) This paper reports data concerning the immune status of 252 pregnant women with regard to rubella infection.
(5) The Authors report the results of IgM and IgA assays in blood of the umbilical cord of 1694 newborns during the period from October 1973 to July 1974 after a rubella epidemic occurred in Piedmont.
(6) Interestingly, when a panel of viral antibodies was tested, only those to rubella virus were elevated in the early postlaser period.
(7) Rubella IgM was detected in nine of 37,000 samples; congenital rubella infection was confirmed serologically in eight infants.
(8) Measles and rubella antibody titres in patients with and without HLA-Dw2 and HLA-B7 antigens were compared using a sensitive radioimmunoassay method.
(9) A proportion (10 out of 33, 30%) of the vaccinees developed low amounts of rubella IgG-class (both IgG1 and IgG3 isotypes) antibodies.
(10) The antibody response to the measles component was marginally better in the older group, but no differences were observed in the response to the mumps and rubella components.
(11) The results obtained for the range of pH 6.0--8.0 speak against a pH dependency of the rubella HAI test.
(12) The presence of cardiolipin (4.4 per cent), the amount of sphingomyelin (6.9 per cent) and the molar ratio of cholesterol to phospholipids (0.26) in varions seem to favor a rubella virus maturation site in the cells.
(13) Notwithstanding the fact that rubella vaccination has been recommended for all school-girls since 1973, no significant difference was noticed between the seropositivity rates of healthy females aged 18-23 observed in the period 1973-78 (i.e.
(14) Licensure and widespread distribution of attenuated rubella virus vaccines in 1969 have prevented epidemic rubella.
(15) Rubella infection of the newborn was confirmed by rubella specific IgM only if the mother had contracted German measles during the first trimester of the pregnancy (6 out of 7 cases).
(16) Pregnant women showed an overall downward trend in susceptibility to rubella (from 4.2% at the beginning of 1984 to 3.0% at the end of 1986), and a similar decline was seen in the two other categories.
(17) Sensitization to avian and other animal proteins and antibiotics which may follow the use of most of the currently available measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, either single or combined, may be expected to be eliminated when this new vaccine is used.
(18) In the 3-5 year-old group, rural environment, low socioeconomic status, no school attendance and lack of brothers were associated with statistically lower levels of measles, rubella, or mumps infection.
(19) Measles infection prevalence was significantly higher than that for rubella and mumps from 3 (48.3%, 14.2%, 25.5%, respectively) through 7 years of age, (64%, 40.9%, 39%).
(20) During epidemics, rubella virus infection should be considered in patients who manifest cardiac symptoms and signs of unknown etiology.