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Shedding of measles vaccine RNA in children after receiving measles, mumps and rubella vaccination.

Matthew C WashamAmy L LeberSophonie J OyeniranKathy EverhartHuanyu Wang
Published in: Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (2024)
Shedding of measles vaccine RNA is not uncommon and vaccine RNA can be detected up to 29 days post MMR; the amount of vaccine RNA shedding is low indicated by high Ct values. Clinicians and public health officials should consider performing measles vaccine testing on those testing positive for measles within one month of MMR vaccination, especially if the Ct value is high and definitive epidemiological links are absent.
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