Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
Research
Oral Fluid Testing during 10 Years of Rubella Elimination, England and Wales
Gayatri Manikkavasagan, Antoaneta Bukasa, Kevin E. Brown, Bernard J. Cohen, and Mary E. Ramsay
Table 2
Reported and confirmed rubella cases in enhanced surveillance program, England and Wales, 1999–2008*
| Age, y | Total no. reports |
No. cases confirmed by oral (crevicular) fluid testing |
No. additional cases confirmed by serum testing |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | UNK | Total no. (%) | M | F | UNK | Total no. (%) | M | F | UNK | Total no. (%) | |||
| <1 | 1,823 | 1,674 | 23 | 3,520 (25.0) | 10 | 10 | 1 | 21 (15.0) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 (2.7) | ||
| 1–4 | 3,406 | 2,882 | 37 | 6,325 (45.0) | 14 | 9 | 1 | 24 (17.0) | 19 | 10 | 1 | 30 (11.0) | ||
| 5–9 | 1,083 | 1,005 | 14 | 2,102 (15.0) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 (3.5) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 (1.5) | ||
| 10–14 | 339 | 298 | 4 | 641 (4.6) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 (0.3) | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 (4.2) | ||
| >15 | 506 | 729 | 7 | 1,242 (8.9) | 63 | 26 | 0 | 89 (62.0) | 93 | 109 | 7 | 209 (79.0) | ||
| UNK |
54 |
56 |
12 |
122 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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| Total no. (%) |
7,211 (52.0) |
6,644 (48.0) |
97 |
13,952 |
92 (64.0) |
49 (34.0) |
2 |
143 |
125 (48.0) |
128 (48.0) |
10 |
263 |
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| *UNK, unknown. | ||||||||||||||
