title: [Rubella immunity of young nurses in the hospitals of Hamburg in 1979 (author's transl)].
abstract: A serological survey of young nurses, mainly aged 17 to 22 years, showed that only 1.5% of nurses from pediatric departments (n = 335) were without rubella antibodies compared with 4.3% seronegative nurses from general wards (n = 278). Very rarely some nurses still considered a history of rubella as a basis of their rubella immunity. Nurses born in different parts of West Germany demonstrated various percentages of serological immunity towards rubella before the onset of their work. In Hamburg rubella vaccination has been offered already since 1972 to 15 years old schoolgirls. Therefore it was understandable, that nurses born in Hamburg (308) were seronegative, only in 2.6% whilst nurses born in other parts of Germany with later onset of the vaccination programme lacked rubella antibodies up to 8.1%.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D012409:Rubella / Q000276:immunology*; D014611:Vaccination
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral
vernacular_title: Rötelnimmunstatus von Schwesternschülerinnen in Hamburger Krankenhäusern im Jahre 1979.