title: Rapid response to a case of mumps: implications for preventing transmission at a medical research facility.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To prevent transmission among the staff and potentially among the non-human primate (NHP) colony at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment in Peru, where an active case of mumps was discovered in a senior laboratory technician in Sep 03, 2007.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subjects at the research facility were interviewed and potentially susceptible contacts were tested for mumps IgG.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 81 out of 106 staff members (76%) had close contact with the case. Only 6/81 (7%) had MMR, 33 (41%) reported having had mumps, and 8 of 45 (18%) of the potentially susceptible individuals did not have immunity (IgG > 20.0). All the susceptible, exposed individuals received MMR vaccine. There were no secondary cases and access to the NHP colony was restricted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Immediate and thorough investigation and occupational health response were imperative in preventing secondary cases of mumps among humans and NHP.
authors.affiliation: Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Peru.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salmón-Mulanovich
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Utz
authors.forename: Andrés G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Lescano
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Bentzel
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Blazes
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration; D000328:Adult; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D016645:Aotidae; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016358:Contact Tracing; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D005511:Food Handling; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D009107:Mumps / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D009109:Mumps virus / Q000276:immunology; D010568:Peru; D011247:Pregnancy; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine