Measles
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, sa.20, ss.1978, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Kısa Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.1056/nejmc1912468
- Dergi Adı: NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1978
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
To the Editor: Strebel and Orenstein (July 25 issue)(1) discuss several complications of measles infection, including subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The frequency of this complication is often, and perhaps inevitably, underestimated as a result of inadequate diagnosis and reporting.(2) Previous reports calculated a risk of 1 per 25,000 to 45,000 measles cases in the general population and 1 per 2000 to 5500 measles cases among children younger than 1 year of age.(3,4) However, in a more recent review of cases in California in the period 1998-2015, Wendorf et al. found an incidence of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis according to the time of . . .