TY  - JOUR
T1  - MUmps
AU  - PACHMAN DJ
Y1  - 1979/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130030108025
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 332
EP  - 332
VL  - 133
IS  - 3
N2  - Sir.—The article by Dr Biedel in the Journal (132:678-680, 1978), "Recurrent Mumps Parotitis Following Natural Infection and Immunization," is of particular interest to pediatricians and to members of advisory committees on immunization procedures. If mumps infection can reoccur (despite a substantial rise in specific antibody levels) in children who have received mumps vaccine or who have had clinical mumps, should children be given a booster dose of mumps virus vaccine at the time of exposure or before puberty (especially boys)?However, Zollar and Mufson1 in 1970 reported that parainfluenza type 3 virus infection can simulate clinical mumps and result also in a rise in serum antibody levels to both parainfluenza type 3 and mumps viruses. Also, as Dr Biedel has noted, other viruses have been reported as a cause of infectious parotitis.Dr Biedel did not obtain viral cultures in his patients, and the only serum antibody studies
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130030108025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130030108025
ER  -