Overview
Generalities
| Agent | Virus: rubella, genus rubullovirus, family Togaviridae. |
| Incubation | NA |
| Period of communicability | Several months after birth |
| Reservoir | Humans. |
| Modes of transmission | -Materno-foetal transmission: 90% of infants born to women infected with rubella during the 1st trimester. The risk of transmission is 10-20% by the 16th week, and rare after the 20th week. |
| Clinical | -Intrauterine death, spontaneous abortion -Congenital malformation: deafness, cataracts, microphtalmia, congenital glaucoma, pigmentary retinopathy, nystagmus, microcephaly, meningo-encephalitis, mental retardation, patent ductus arteious, atrial or ventricular septal defects, other congenital heart disease, purpura, hepatosplenomegaly, jaundice, radiolucent bone disease |
| Worldwide | Worldwide. |
| Lebanon | Rare. |
| Control objective | Control. |
| National figures | |
| One suspected case in 2010. | |
| International figures | |
| Figure 1: Reported CRS worldwide, 2008-2012 (source: WHO) | |
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