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Original Article
Outbreaks of mumps: an observational study over two decades in a single hospital in Korea
Ji-Ung Ryu, Eun-Kyung Kim, You-Sook Youn, Jung-Woo Rhim, Kyung-Yil Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2014;57(9):396-402.   Published online September 30, 2014
Purpose

The introduction of the mumps vaccine has dramatically reduced the number of mumps cases, but outbreaks have recently occurred among highly vaccinated populations in developed countries. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with mumps admitted between 1989 and 2012 in a single hospital in Korea are described in the present study.

Methods

We retrospectively evaluated inpatients with mumps between 1989 and 2012...