title: [Primary failure of measles vaccine in a ten-year-old boy].
abstract: 79% of all four-year-old Danish children are vaccinated twice for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). Administration of the second MMR dose is recommended in order to prevent primary vaccine failure, which occurs in 5%. In 2011 the largest outbreak of measles for 15 years took place in Denmark and this is a case report of measles in a ten-year-old vaccinated boy. He had received a single dose of MMR vaccine at the recommended age of 17 months. To prevent larger outbreaks of measles, a larger percentage of Danish children must receive the recommended two doses of vaccine for MMR.
authors.affiliation: Lægehuset i Mogenstrup, Denmark. madsaage@dadlnet.dk
authors.forename: Mads Aage
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Toft Kristensen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology*; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine