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Two successive outbreaks of mumps in Nova Scotia among vaccinated adolescents and young adults

Gaynor Watson-Creed, Andrea Saunders, Jeffrey Scott, Luis Lowe, Janice Pettipas and Todd F. Hatchette

From Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection (Watson-Creed, Saunders, Scott), the Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology (Watson-Creed, Scott), Pediatrics (Scott) and Pathology (Hatchette), Dalhousie University, and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Pettipas, Hatchette), QEII Health Science Centre, Halifax, NS; the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program (Saunders), Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Respiratory and Enteric Virus Branch (Lowe), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.


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  		Fig. 1: Cases of mumps in Nova Scotia from May 2005 through January 2006 (n = 32).

 

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  		Fig. 2: Phylogenetic tree depicting how the viral strains of the Halifax outbreak relate to other mumps viruses previously and currently circulating. Note: codes in parentheses are GenBank numbers. "Source unknown" indicates that no epidemiological links could be found to either outbreak.

 

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