Abstract

Objective To valuation the effect of varicella vaccine's emergent vaccination and to understand the sero prevalence of varicella-zoster virus (VZV).Methods Sevevteen schools which had Chickenpox outbreak in the years of 2004~2006 were chosen as the field of epidemiological study.The chickenpox patients and close contects in 5 schools of them were investigated in Questionnaire.And we collected 85 serum samples of students before and after immunity in 2 schools to test IgG antibody of VZV using ELISA.Results The attack rates of chickenpox in the schools before and after emergent vaccination are 6.22% and 1.65%.The difference was significant(x2=10.99,P<0.01).The attack rate of exposure group was significant lower than the control group(x2=20.70,P<0.01).Antibodies effective rate after immunity was 90.70%,Antibody positive rate was 87.80%,and Immune success rate was 70.70%.Condusion Emergent vaccination can effectively control the chickenpox outbreak.So the result of study suggests that emergent vaccination should be done immediately once a chickenpox case has occured in a school. Key words: varicella; vaccine emergent vaccination; Vaccine efficacy

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