Epidemiology of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India, 2016-18, based on data from sentinel surveillance.
Manoj Vasanth MurhekarSanjay VermaKuldeep SinghAshish BavdekarNaveen BenakappaSridhar SanthanamGajanan SapkalRajlakshmi ViswanathanMini P SinghVijaya Lakshmi NagSadanand NaikMunivenkatappa AshokAsha Mary AbrahamDevika ShanmugasundaramR SabarinathanValsan Philip VergheseSuji GeorgeRavinder Kaur SachdevaJyoti KolekarS ManasaJagat RamMadhu GuptaManoj K RohitPraveen KumarParul Chawla GuptaR K RathoSanjay Kumar MunjalUrvashi NehraDaisy KheraNeeraj GuptaNidhi KaushalPratibha SinghRavisekhar GadepalliNeelam VaidSandeep KadamSanjay ShahS MahanteshVykuntaraju K GowdaPradeep HaldarM K AggarwalNivedita GuptaPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2020)
About one fifth suspected CRS patients were laboratory confirmed, indicating significance of rubella as a persistent public health problem in India. Continued surveillance will generate data to monitor the progress made by the rubella control program in the country.