Analysis of epidemiological peculiarities of rubella based on a mathematical model (according to observations over 10 years in Moscow).

The main epidemiological values characterizing rubella in Moscow were calculated on the basis of a new mathematical model. Quantitative estimates of the intensity of infection in different age groups of the population were obtained. It has been established that the risk of infection in children is especially high in comparison with adult population.

[Acute meningoencephalitis and the problem of viral persistence in complicated rubella].

The results of combined clinico-virological and immunological examinations of 25 children with rubellar meningoencephalitis are presented. The meningoencephalitis was preceded by typical rubella in 24, and by rubellar infection without eruptions in 1 child. In 6 children the rubella virus was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid in the acute period of the disease (5th to 19th days), and in 2 children it was re-isolated on the acute period of the disease (5th to 19th days), and in 2 children it was re-isolated on the 17th-19th days.

[Use of a combined epidemiological, virological and morphological analysis of rubella infection for an epidemiological survey of congenital rubella].

The results of composite epidemiological, virological and morphological studies of intrauterine rubella infection performed in 1979, in the period of maximum increase of rubella incidence in Moscow for 11 years (1969-1979) are presented. Investigations of 125 foci of rubella established a relatively high frequency of contacts of pregnant women with the source of infection in families of rubella patients. Twenty-nine cases of clinically manifest and inapparent rubella among pregnant women were detected and confirmed in the laboratory; intrauterine infection at 3-17 weeks was established in 16 out of 18 virologically examined women.