Sentinel Surveillance for Congenital Rubella Syndrome - India, 2016–2017

• Published in: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 67; no. 36; pp. 1012 - 1016
• Main Authors: Murhekar, Manoj, Bavdekar, Ashish, Benakappa, Asha, Santhanam, Sridhar, Singh, Kuldeep, Verma, Sanjay, Sapkal, Gajanan N, Gupta, Nivedita, Verghese, Valsan Philip, Viswanathan, Rajlakshmi, Abraham, Asha Mary, Choudhary, Shyama, Deshpande, Gururajrao N, George, Suji, Goyal, Garima, Gupta, Parul Chawla, Jhamb, Ishani, John, Deepa, Philip, Swetha, Kadam, Sandeep, Sachdeva, Ravinder Kaur, Kumar, Praveen, Lepcha, Anjali, Mahantesh, S, Manasa, S, Nehra, Urvashi, Munjal, Sanjay Kumar, Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi, Naik, Sadanand, Raj, Naga, Ram, Jagat, Ratho, R K, Raut, C G, Rohit, Manoj Kumar, Sabarinathan, R, Shah, Sanjay, Singh, Pratibha, Singh, Mini P, Tiwari, Ashish, Vaid, Neelam
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta U.S. Center for Disease Control 14-09-2018
• Subjects: Adequacy; Cardiology; Cataracts; Congenital rubella; Councils; Defects; Families & family life; Hearing loss; Heart; Immunoglobulins; Infections; Measles; Medical laboratories; Medical research; Newborn babies; Pediatrics; Pregnancy; Rubella; Stillbirth; Surveillance; Virology; East Asia; India
• ISSN: 0149-2195; 1545-861X

India is committed to eliminating measles and controlling rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2020. Before 2016, India did not have a systematic CRS surveillance system. CRS surveillance in five sentinel sites from 2016 identified 207 suspected CRS cases; 72 (34.8%) were laboratory-confirmed. CRS surveillance met or surpassed indicators for data adequacy, specimen collection, and timeliness of specimen transport. However, timeliness of detection of cases within 3 months of birth and of reporting laboratory results needs improvement. Expansion of the sentinel CRS surveillance network to other states can be guided by experiences during the first 8 months