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

Australia

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

• NSW Ministry of Health
  • Rubella

• 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]

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

• 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]

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

• 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]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • 7th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC). Report (2018) [2018]
  • 13th meeting of the European Measles and Rubella Regional Reference Laboratories. Report (2018) [2018]
  • Measles and rubella elimination 2015. Package for accelerated action: 2013-2015 [2013]
  • Guidelines for measles and rubella outbreak investigation and response in the WHO European Region [2013]
  • Guidance on conducting serosurveys in support of measles and rubella elimination in the WHO European Region (2013) [2013]
  • Surveillance guidelines for measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the WHO European Region [2012]
  • Eliminating measles and rubella: framework for the verification process in the WHO European Region [2012]
  • Measles and rubella

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]

India

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

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • IAP perspectives on measles and rubella elimination strategies [2014]

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

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India: A Systematic Review [2012]

• Weekly Epidemiological Record
  • Assessment of readiness for measles–rubella supplementary immunization activity, India, 2018 [2018]

International

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 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]

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

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
  • Investigating the immunizing effect of the rubella epidemic in Japan, 2012-14 [2015]

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]

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]

Solomon Islands

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

South-East Asia

• Weekly Epidemiological Record
  • Progress towards control of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome – South-East Asia Region, 2000–2016 [2018]

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Strategic plan for measles elimination and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control in the South-East Asia Region, 2014-2020 [2015]
  • Measles elimination and rubella/congenital rubella syndrome control: Report of a regional consultation, Kathmandu, Nepal, 19-22 February 2013 [2013]
  • Rubella

Taiwan

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

United Kingdom

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

• Public Health England
  • Rubella (German measles): guidance, data and analysis

United States of America

• 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

• Minnesota Department of Health
  • Rubella (German Measles)

Western Pacific

• 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
  • Guidance for evaluating progress towards elimination of measles and rubella [2018]
  • Roadmap to elimination standard measles and rubella surveillance [2017]
  • Introducing Rubella Vaccine into National Immunization Programmes. A step by step guide [2015]
  • Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination – global progress, 2012 [2013]
  • Global measles and rubella strategic plan: 2012-2020 [2012]
  • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 11: rubella [2008]
  • Rubella: Fact sheet
  • Rubella - Reported cases by country
  • Rubella
  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome - Reported cases by country

Zimbabwe

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

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