1. Epidemiological surveillance of rubella must continue
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Pat A Tookey, Jugnoo S Rahi, Isabelle Russell-Eggitt, and Gill Adams
- Subjects
Pregnancy ,education.field_of_study ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,genetic structures ,business.industry ,Population ,General Engineering ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Rubella ,eye diseases ,Rubella Infection ,Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects ,Epidemiological surveillance ,medicine ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Microphthalmos ,business ,education ,General Environmental Science ,Retinopathy - Abstract
EDITOR—The description in 1941 by an Australian ophthalmologist of congenital cataract occurring after rubella in pregnancy was one of the first clearly demonstrated risk factors for congenital anomalies in humans.1 Several of the major ophthalmic long term effects of prenatal rubella infection, such as cataract, microphthalmos, and retinopathy, are recognisable at birth or in early infancy.2 Their diagnosis in children is recognised to be important in identifying the population at …
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- 2001