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Africa

• BMC Research Notes
  • Serological makers of rubella infection in Africa in the pre vaccination era: a systematic review [2015]

• Journal of Immunological Sciences
  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome in The African Region - Data from Sentinel Surveillance [2018]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Rubella Epidemiology in Africa in the Prevaccine Era, 2002–2009 [2011]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Regional Framework for the Monitoring and Re-Verification of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination in the Americas [2021]

Australia

• Department of Health Australia
  • Rubella | The Australian Immunisation Handbook [2018]
  • Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: rubella 2008–2012 [2015]
  • Rubella

• NSW Health
  • Rubella (German Measles) control guideline

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013 [2016]

Belgium

• EuroSurveillance
  • Pitfalls of rubella serology while on the brink of elimination: evaluation of national data, Belgium, 2017 [2021]

Cameroon

• International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
  • Identification of Ocular and Auditory Manifestations of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Mbingo [2014]

Canada

• Government of Alberta
  • Public health disease management guidelines : rubella [2018]
  • Public health disease management guidelines : congenital rubella infection/syndrome [2018]

• Government of Canada
  • Rubella Vaccine
  • Rubella

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Re-verifying the elimination of measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Canada, 2016–2020 [2021]

• Public Health Ontario
  • Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Rubella in Pregnancy [2018]

Chile

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Rubella Outbreaks Following Virus Importations: The Experience of Chile [2011]

China

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Sociodemographic and economic characteristics of susceptibility to rubella among women preparing for pregnancy in rural China [2017]

• Scientific Reports
  • Analysis of complete genomes of the rubella virus genotypes 1E and 2B which circulated in China, 2000–2013 [2016]

Croatia

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Measles and rubella elimination country profile: Croatia [2018]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Rubella

Ethiopia

• BMC Public Health
  • Epidemiology of rubella virus cases in the pre-vaccination era of Ethiopia, 2009–2015 [2016]

Europe

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Progress Toward Rubella Elimination — World Health Organization European Region, 2005–2019 [2021]

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Retrospective surveillance and enhanced case-finding of congenital rubella syndrome cases [2018]
  • Measles and rubella surveillance - 2017 [2018]

Fiji

• Journal of Tropical Medicine
  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Fiji, 1995–2010 [2013]

France

• EuroSurveillance
  • Resurgence risk for measles, mumps and rubella in France in 2018 and 2020 [2018]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Measles and rubella elimination country profile: France [2020]

Ghana

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • An 11-year trend of rubella incidence cases reported in the measles case-based surveillance system, Ghana [2021]

High and upper middle income countries

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
  • Strategies for elimination of rubella in pregnancy and of congenital rubella syndrome in high and upper-middle income countries [2020]

India

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Sentinel Surveillance for Congenital Rubella Syndrome — India, 2016–2017 [2018]

• Indian Journal of Public Health
  • Congenital rubella syndrome: A brief review of public health perspectives [2018]
  • Targeting rubella for elimination [2012]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Burden of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in India based on data from cross-sectional serosurveys, 2017 and 2019–20 [2021]
  • Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance [2020]

International

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — Worldwide, 2012–2020 [2022]
  • Progress in Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2016 [2017]
  • Global Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — 2000–2014 [2015]

• Lancet Global Health
  • The epidemiology of rubella, 2007–18: an ecological analysis of surveillance data [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Using Seroprevalence and Immunisation Coverage Data to Estimate the Global Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome, 1996-2010: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Vaccines
  • The Impact of Rubella Vaccine Introduction on Rubella Infection and Congenital Rubella Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Mathematical Modelling Studies [2021]

• Weekly Epidemiological Record
  • Genetic characterization of measles and rubella viruses detected through surveillance for global measles and rubella elimination, 2016–2018 [2019]

Iran

• Archives of Razi Institute
  • A Review on Rubella Vaccine: Iran (1975-2010) [2021]

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Sero-epidemiological evaluation of rubella immunity among pre-marriage women in Iran [2019]

• International Journal of Fertility & Sterility
  • Rubella Immunity in Pregnant Iranian Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Rubella

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Rubella [2016]

Italy

• EuroSurveillance
  • Congenital rubella still a public health problem in Italy: analysis of national surveillance data from 2005 to 2013 [2015]

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Surveillance and vaccination coverage of measles and rubella in Northern Italy [2014]
  • Progress in the elimination of measles and congenital rubella in Central Italy [2013]

Japan

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Predicting congenital rubella syndrome in Japan, 2018–2019 [2019]
  • Investigating the immunizing effect of the rubella epidemic in Japan, 2012-14 [2015]

Low and middle income countries

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • The impact of Measles-Rubella vaccination on the morbidity and mortality from Congenital Rubella Syndrome in 92 countries [2019]

Namibia

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Rubella immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years, Namibia, 2010 [2016]

Nepal

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Confronting Rubella: the story of how Nepal protected its people from rubella and congenital rubella syndrome [2018]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Rubella: congenital [2012]

Nigeria

• Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Rubella transmissibility and reproduction number (Ro): A critical appraisal of the prospects for its control in Nigeria [2020]

Philippines

• International Journal of Pediatrics
  • Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Philippines: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • The burden of congenital rubella syndrome in the Philippines: results from a retrospective assessment [2017]

Republic of Korea

• BMJ Open
  • Recent trends in seroprevalence of rubella in Korean women of childbearing age: a cross-sectional study [2020]

Solomon Islands

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • An outbreak investigation of congenital rubella syndrome in Solomon Islands, 2013 [2016]

South Africa

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome Surveillance in South Africa Using a Sentinel Site Approach: A Cross-sectional Study [2019]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Seventh Meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Verification Commission for measles and rubella [2022]
  • Fourth Regional workshop to review progress towards measles-rubella and other priority VPD surveillance and outbreak preparedness and response in WHO South-East Asia region [2022]
  • Framework for verification of measles and rubella elimination in the WHO South-East Asia Region [2020]
  • Strategic plan for measles and rubella elimination in WHO South-East Asia Region: 2020–2024 [2019]
  • Measles and rubella in SEARO

Spain

• Vaccine
  • Last cases of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Spain, 1997–2016: The success of a vaccination program [2019]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Sero-prevalence of rubella among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis [2020]

Taiwan

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Is birth cohort 1985/9–1990/8 a susceptibility window for congenital rubella syndrome in Taiwan? [2016]

Uganda

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Rubella IgM epidemiology in the pre-rubella vaccination era in Uganda [2020]

United Kingdom

• EuroSurveillance
  • Rubella infection in pregnancy and congenital rubella in United Kingdom, 2003 to 2016 [2018]

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Rubella (German measles): guidance, data and analysis

United States

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevention of Measles, Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, and Mumps, 2013: Summary Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2013]
  • Use of combination measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2010]
  • Surveillance Manual | Congenital Rubella Syndrome
  • Rubella | German Measles
  • Rubella (German Measles) Vaccination
  • Rubella
  • Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Safety

Western Pacific

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Progress Toward Rubella Elimination — Western Pacific Region, 2000–2019 [2020]

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Consultation on Regional Measles and Rubella Elimination in the Western Pacific Inherent Physical Requirements of the Position, Manila, Philippines, 19-21 April 2017 : meeting report [2017]
  • Sixth Hands-on Training on Molecular Laboratory Diagnosis of Measles and Rubella, Hong Kong SAR (China), 29 February to 4 March 2016 : report [2016]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Rubella vaccines: WHO position paper – July 2020 [2020]
  • Roadmap to elimination standard measles and rubella surveillance [2017]
  • Global measles and rubella strategic plan: 2012-2020 [2012]
  • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 11: rubella [2008]
  • Rubella: Fact sheet
  • Rubella (German Measles)

Zimbabwe

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends of rubella incidence during a 5-year period of case based surveillance in Zimbabwe [2015]

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