Lower Rate of Seropositivity to Measles Among Young Healthcare Personnel in New York City

Anabella Lucca; Nagla Bayoumi; Lakshmi V Ramanathan; Kent Sepkowitz; Mini Kamboj

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa660

Lower Rate of Seropositivity to Measles Among Young Healthcare Personnel in New York City

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 15;71(12):3241-3243. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa660.

Authors

Anabella Lucca¹, Nagla Bayoumi², Lakshmi V Ramanathan³, Kent Sepkowitz⁴, Mini Kamboj⁵

Affiliations

¹ Employee Health and Wellness Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
² Infection Control, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
³ Clinical Chemistry Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁴ Division of Quality and Safety, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Infection Control and Infectious Disease Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

We examined the prevalence of measles antibody among 12 349 newly hired HCP between 2009 and 2019. Younger HCP were significantly more likely to have no immunity. Compared with a 92.2% seropositive rate among 1057 persons hired at age >50 years, only 84.4% of approximately 10 000 HCP aged <40 years had protective antibody.

Keywords: healthcare personnel; immunity; measles; serology; vaccination.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Antibodies, Viral
Delivery of Health Care
Health Personnel*
Humans
Measles Vaccine
Measles* / epidemiology
Middle Aged
New York City / epidemiology
Vaccination*

Substances

Antibodies, Viral
Measles Vaccine

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States