Difficulty in Serologic Screening for Subclinical Rubella During Pregnancy
This study showed that the single combination of rubella HI and rubella-specific IgM measurements alone did not detect subclinical rubella. Creating awareness among pregnant women by informing them that almost all rubella-specific IgM-positive individuals without symptoms are not acutely infected could decrease their anxiety and prevent unnecessary termination of pregnancies.PMID:38030270 | DOI:10.7883/yoken.JJID.2023.222
Source: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kazuya Hiiragi Ryosuke Shindo Satoru Shinoda Mika Okuda Keiko Tanaka-Taya Kentaro Kurasawa Etsuko Miyagi Shigeru Aoki Source Type: research
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