The effect of the vaccine on the severity of infection on children with mumps

Abstract

A hundred patients were diagnosed with mumps virus in children with fever, fatigue, and swelling in one or both of salivary glands (parotitis). ELISA was used to test mumps specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies. Of 100 kids tested, (59%) had earlier been vaccinated against mumps, while (41%) had not been vaccinated. (73%) had mumps IgM antibodies. Of these, (56.1%) had been vaccinated for mumps, while (43.8%) had not. The results indicated significant difference between severity of infection and vaccination status.