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Amy A. Parker
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 4
Citations - 634
Amy A. Parker is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vaccination & Measles. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 614 citations.
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Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States
Gustavo H. Dayan,M. Patricia Quinlisk,Amy A. Parker,Albert E. Barskey,Meghan L. Harris,Jennifer M. Hill Schwartz,Kae Hunt,Carol G. Finley,Dennis P. Leschinsky,Anne L. O'Keefe,Joshua Clayton,Lon Kightlinger,Eden G. Dietle,Jeffrey L. Berg,Cynthia L. Kenyon,Susan T. Goldstein,Shannon Stokley,Susan B. Redd,Paul A. Rota,Jennifer S. Rota,Daoling Bi,Sandra W. Roush,Carolyn B. Bridges,Tammy A. Santibanez,Umesh D. Parashar,William J. Bellini,Jane F. Seward +26 more
TL;DR: Despite a high coverage rate with two doses of mumps-containing vaccine, a large mumps outbreak occurred in 2006, characterized by two-dose vaccine failure, particularly among midwestern college-age adults who probably received the second dose as schoolchildren.
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Implications of a 2005 Measles Outbreak in Indiana for Sustained Elimination of Measles in the United States
Amy A. Parker,Wayne Staggs,Gustavo H. Dayan,Ismael R. Ortega-Sanchez,Paul A. Rota,Luis Lowe,Patricia Boardman,Robert Teclaw,Charlene Graves,Charles W. LeBaron +9 more
TL;DR: In 2005, a 17-year-old unvaccinated girl who was incubating measles returned from Romania, creating the largest documented outbreak of measles in the United States since 1996 as discussed by the authors.
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Challenges to Implementing Second-Dose Varicella Vaccination during an Outbreak in the Absence of a Routine 2-Dose Vaccination Requirement—Maine, 2006
Amy A. Parker,Meredith A. Reynolds,Jessica Leung,Meredith Anderson,Araceli Rey,Ismael R. Ortega-Sanchez,D. Scott Schmid,Dalya Guris,Kathleen F. Gensheimer +8 more
TL;DR: The routine 1-dose varicella vaccination policy did not confer adequate population immunity to prevent this outbreak and support ACIP's June 2007 recommendation for a routine 2-dosevaricellavaccine program.
Pay-for-Performance Programs in the United Kingdom
TL;DR: The parents of the patient who had measles despite receiving two doses of vaccine declined to have specimens collected from any of their children except one whose disease was confirmed by laboratory testing during hospitalization.