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NISH (NITAG Support Hub) 9: MMR Vaccine with a Specific Focus on Mumps: Asia and South America- Epidemiology / Public Health Aspects and Vaccine-Related Articles

Asia and South America - Epidemiology / Public Health Aspects and Vaccine-Related Articles

 

 China, India, Indonesia Pakistan & Thailand

Agarwal, R., Saxena, A., Grover, M., Samdhani, S., Mehta, G., Mehta, R., ... & Preetam, C. (2024). Atypical mumps: Are we heading towards an outbreak?. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, 76(5), 4138-4145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-024-04802-9

Almansour, I. (2020). Mumps vaccines: Current challenges and future prospects. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01999

Anugulruengkitt, S., Angsuwatcharakon, P., Puthanakit, T., Bunjoungmanee, P., Srimuan, P., Kowitdamrong, E., ... & Tangsathapornpong, A. (2022). Seroprevalence of mumps among children and adolescents in Thailand, 2020. Vaccine, 40(8), 1061-1064. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.019

Azimaqin, N., Li, Y., & Liu, X. (2025). A heterogeneous continuous age-structured model of mumps with vaccine. Infectious Disease Modelling, 10(1), 75-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2024.09.004
 
Azimaqin, N., Peng, Z., Ren, X., Wei, Y., & Liu, X. (2022). Vaccine failure, seasonality and demographic changes associate with mumps outbreaks in Jiangsu Province, China: Age-structured mathematical modelling study. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 544, 111125. (Not OA)

Balaji, A., Kunju, P. A. M., Deepasree, J., Baby, G., & Devadathan, K. (2025). Retrobulbar neuritis associated with mumps infection in a toddler. Neurology India, 73(5), 1066-1068.
https://doi: 10.4103/neurol-india.Neurol-India-D-24-00751
 
Bashar, MA and Gnanasekaraan, S. Mumps resurgence in India during the decade 2014-2023: A trend and geospatial analysis. (2025).  Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6128565/v1

Bingxin, M. A., Yuhui, J. I. N., Qile, W. U., Hui, S. U. N., Yao, W. A. N. G., Yafei, C. H. E. N., ... & Wei, Q. I. N. (2025). Incremental effectiveness of two-dose of mumps-containing vaccine in chidren. Chinese Journal of School Health.  46(6), 883-887. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025177

Chellamuthu, L., & Jenisha, A. (2025). Resurgence of Mumps in India: A Call to Reintroduce MMR into the Immunization Program. National Journal of Community Medicine, 16(07), 742-745. https://doi.org/10.55489/njcm.160720255590

 

Connell, A. R., Connell, J., Leahy, T. R., & Hassan, J. (2020). Mumps outbreaks in vaccinated populations: Is it  time to re-assess the clinical efficacy of vaccines?. Frontiers in immunology, 11, 2089.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02089

Cui, A., Zhu, Z., Mao, N., Si, Y., Ma, Y., Hu, Y., ... & Xu, W. (2018). Assessment of one-dose mumps-containing vaccine effectiveness on wild-type genotype F mumps viruses circulating in mainland China. Vaccine, 36(38), 5725-5731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.08.028

Debbarma, S., Roy, N., Hari, H., Patil, S., Yadav, A., Prathapan, A., ... & Pandey, S. (2025). Outbreak investigation of mumps in a rural area of Patna District of Bihar, India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 10-4103. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_627_24

Deng, X., Hu, Y., Lu, P., Wang, Z., & Guo, H. (2024). Genetic characteristic of mumps virus from 2012 to 2016 and its serum antibody level among general healthy population during 2018–2020 in Jiangsu Province, China. BMC Infectious Diseases, 24(1), 718. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09609-1
 
Dharmapalan, D., Gavhane, J., Patil, A., Shahane, S., Warad, S., Yewale, Y., ... & John, T. J. (2024). Mumps epidemic in Navi Mumbai in 2023–24: Lessons for the health management system. Indian Pediatrics, 61(12), 1123-1126. (Not OA)
 

Di Pietrantonj C, Rivetti A, Marchione P, Debalini MG, Demicheli V. Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in children. (2021). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004407

Dittrich, S., Hahné, S., Van Lier, A., Kohl, R., Boot, H., Koopmans, M., & Van Binnendijk, R. (2011). Assessment of serological evidence for mumps virus infection in vaccinated children. Vaccine, 29(49), 9271-9275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.09.072

Fatima, H., Salman, M., Jamal, Z., Hakim, R., Umair, M., & Qazi, J. (2025). Molecular characterization and genetic diversity of mumps virus genotype G in Pakistan during the 2023 outbreaks. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 105766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2025.105766

Filliana, U., Anwar, K., Haqiqi, C. F., Mustikawati, H., & Wulansari, P. S. (2025). Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Siswa Tentang Pentingnya Vaksin MMR dan Penyakit Gondongan di SD Pakintelan 02 Kecamatan Gunungpati: Improving students' knowledge about the importance of MMR vaccines and mumps at Pakintelan 02 Elementary School, Gunungpati District. Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (JUDIKA), 6(1), 11-16.
Ghanghoriya PK, Behera PK, Jagan J. Acute leukoencephalopathy with restricted diffusion following mumps infection in a pediatric patient: A case report. (2025). Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice. https://doi.org/10.25259/JNRP_212_2025

Gong X, Fang Q, Zheng W, Lai S, Xu W, Yin Z. Epidemiological characteristics and serological
survey of mumps 15 years after MMR vaccine was included i
n the immunization program. Journal of Medical Virology, 96(8), e29856. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39135476/

Hu, K., Li, C., Yang, X., Xiao, D., Zhang, X., & Yu, M. (2025). Spatial stratified heterogeneity of mumps incidence in China: a Geodetector-based analysis of driving factors. Frontiers in public health, 13, 1637288. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1637288

Khan, S. R., Srivastava, S., Kumar, S., Mehta, R., Satapathy, P., Mohanty, A., & Sah, R. (2024). Recent mumps resurgence in India: General childhood vaccination is needed. Infectious Diseases, 56(7), 586-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/23744235.2024.2355274

Khdr Ahmad, K., Agaba, G. O., & Rahman, B. (2025). Modelling the Impact of Vaccination and Quarantine in the Dynamics of Mumps Infection with Hearing Loss. Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 30(4), 93–105. https://doi.org/10.25130/tjps.v30i4.1861

Lalitha, S., & Minnie, R. (2025). An epidemic of mumps reported in a peripheral charitable hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka. Pediatric Infectious Disease, 7(2), 59-61.
https://doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10081-1460

Lam, E., Rosen, J. B., & Zucker, J. R. (2020). Mumps: An update on outbreaks, vaccine efficacy, and genomic diversity. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 33(2), 10-1128. 
https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR .00151-19.

Li, D., Zhang, H., You, N., Chen, Z., Yang, X., Zhang, H., ... & Pan, W. (2022). Mumps serological surveillance following 10 years of a one-dose mumps-containing-vaccine policy in Fujian Province, China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 18(6), 2096375. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2096375

Liang, Y., Che, Y., Yang, B., Zhan, F., Li, H., Guan, X., ... & Li, Q. (2019). Immunogenicity and safety of an F-genotype attenuated mumps vaccine in healthy 8-to 24-month-old children. The Journal of infectious Diseases, 219(1), 50-58. (Not OA)

Liu, Y., Cai, X., Yang, D., Xiang, Y., Wang, Q., Yao, N., ... & Xu, J. (2024). Epidemiological characteristics of breakthrough mumps infection cases from 2019 to 2023 in Chongqing, China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 20(1), 2426273. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2024.2426273

Ma, C., Liu, Y., Tang, J., Jia, H., Qin, W., Su, Y., ... & Hao, L. (2018). Assessment of mumps-containing vaccine effectiveness during an outbreak: importance to introduce the 2-dose schedule for China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 14(6), 1392-1397.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2018.1428508


Madhavan, R., Varghese, T., Eswaran, A., Gandhi, V., Saravanan, P., Raj, L., Raju, R., Xavier, J. V. L., Joseph, J. S., Premkumar, P. S., Rose, W., & John, J. (2025). Mumps Seroprevalence in Vellore, South India: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, tpmd250069. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.25-0069


Mamidi, P., Panda, S., Ray, A., Mohapatra, D., Mandal, M. C., Santra, D., Kumar, K., Dwibedi, B., Dey, A., Chattopadhyay, S., & Mishra, B. (2025). Molecular characterization of Mumps virus circulating in Odisha in 2024. Indian journal of medical microbiology, 57, 100949. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2025.100949
 

Moghe, C. S., Goel, P., Singh, J., Nayak, N. R., Dhuria, M., Jain, R., ... & Venkatesh, S. (2019). Mumps outbreak investigation in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, JuneSeptember 2016. Journal of Medical Virology, 91(3), 347-350. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6409212/

Mohakud, N. K. (2024). Post-COVID-19 resurgence of mumps in India needs to be addressed. Research and Reviews in Pediatrics, 25(1), 1-2.
https://doi.org/10.4103/rrp.rrp_11_24

Pang, H., Zhou, Y., Zhao, W., & Jiang, Q. (2018). Seroprevalence and determinants associated with mumps antibodies after 20 years of MMR vaccination in urban area of Shanghai, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10), 2089.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102089

Patel, D. V., Patel, Z., Patel, S. V., Gandhi, P., Parmar, G., & Patel, P. S. (2024). Resurgence of mumps among lower socioeconomic class of children in Ahmedabad: A cross-sectional study of 115 cases in a tertiary care center. Pediatric Infectious Disease, 6(2), 37-39.
https://doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10081-1424

Purwanto, S. Y., & Hanik, S. U. (2025). Unilateral sudden sensorineural hearing loss post-mumps: A rare but critical complication requiring early intervention. Jurnal Locus Penelitian dan Pengabdian, 4(8), 7436-7442.

Qin, W., Wang, Y., Yang, T., Xu, X. K., Meng, X. M., Zhao, C. J., ... & Su, H. (2019). Outbreak of mumps in a student population with high vaccination coverage in China: time for two-dose vaccination. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 15(9), 2106-2111.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1581526

Rana, M. S., Usman, M., Alam, M. M., Tahir, M., Ikram, A., Zaidi, S. S. Z., ... & Salman, M. (2023). The emergence of mumps after the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: Time to consider MMR vaccination strategies. Journal of Infection, 86(5), e133-e134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2023.01.036

Sabalza, M., Weiss, J., Klemens, J., Soane, M., Pereira, K. M., Schulz, A., ... & Montanheiro, P. (2025). A-322ELISA-based determination of anti-mumps IgG reveals a prevalence of 80 percent in sera obtained in Brazil.Clinical Chemistry, 71(Supplement_1), hvaf086-310. https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/hvaf086.310

Sarmah, K., Sarma, K., Borah, P. K., Mahanta, J., Borkakoty, B., & Kaur, H. (2023). Co-circulation of two mumps virus genotypes in Assam, India. Virus Genes, 59(4), 515-523.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-023-02000-3
 
Sarmah, K., Sarma, K., Bora, K., Gogoi, N., Borah, P. K., Sharma, A., ... & Borkakoty, B. (2025). Unveiling mumps prevalence: A cluster sampling approach in Dibrugarh, Assam. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 100911. (Not OA)
 

Saxena, B., Ramachandran, V. G., Saha, R., & Shah, D. (2021). Mumps antibody titer in MMR-vaccinated and vaccine naive children at a public hospital in Delhi. Indian Pediatrics, 58, 137-139.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13312-021-2129-2.pdf

Schenk, J., Abrams, S., Theeten, H., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P., & Hens, N. (2021). Immunogenicity and persistence of trivalent measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21(2), 286-295 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9665966/pdf/main.pdf

Shi, T., Qu, G., Zhang, Y., Hou, L., & Jin, Y. (2025). The effect of mumps vaccine on the incidence of mumps in Hefei: An interrupted time-series analysis. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), 2511359. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2511359

Sri Bhanu, K. S., Nadimpalli, M., Manchu, M. M., Duggirala, M., & Vantaku, V. V. (2024). A study on mumps infection in children aged 1-12 years in a tertiary care hospital, South India: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics, 12(1), 118–123.
https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20243865

Su, S. B., Chang, H. L., & Chen, K. T. (2020). Current status of mumps virus infection: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and vaccine. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(5), 1686. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7084951/pdf/ijerph-17-01686.pdf

Sun, X., Tang, F., Hu, Y., Deng, X., Wang, Z., Zhou, M., & Liu, Y. (2020). High risk of mumps infection in children who received one dose of mumps-containing vaccine: waning immunity to mumps in children aged 2-5 years from kindergartens in Jiangsu Province, China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 16(7), 1738-1742. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1708162

Sun, J., Li, M., Zhang, L., Deng, X., Hu, Y., Chen, Q., ... & Liu, Y. (2023). Mumps-specific antibody persistence in children aged 3–7 years immunized with two doses of mumps-containing vaccines: A prospective cohort study in Jiangsu Province, China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 19(1), 2166758. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2166758

Tingting Shi , Die Hu , Shuangshuang Deng , Guangbo Qu , Baozhen Peng , Yun Zhang & Yuhui Jin (2025.) Incremental effectiveness of the second dose of mumps- containing vaccine among children 9 months to 6 years in Hefei: A matched case-control study, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 21:1, 2562739.  https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2562739

Tripathy, D., Pal, D., Pisudde, P. M., Taywade, M., & Patnaik, A. (2025). Bibliometric analysis of global scientific literature on mumps vaccines. Cureus, 17(7), e88976. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.88976
 

Twanabasu, S., Homagain, S., Tuladhar, S., Maskey, S., Mahaseth, A., Subedi, B. K., & Regmi, D. (2024). Vaccination against mumps: aren't we late already?. JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association, 62(276), 555–557. https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8731

Vaidya, S. R., & Hamde, V. S. (2016). Is it right time to introduce mumps vaccine in India’s Universal immunization program?. Indian Pediatrics, 53, 469-473. (Not OA)

Wang, D., Nie, T., Pan, F., Wang, Y., Wang, J., & Qin, W. (2021). Loss of protective immunity of two-dose mumps-containing vaccine over time: concerns with the new strategy of the mumps immunization program in China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 17(7), 2072-2077. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1861877
 

Wu, R., Chen, Z., Yang, X., Chen, Y., Chen, D., Zhang, H., ... & Li, D. (2024). Investigating the characteristics of mumps outbreaks in Fujian Province, China. Vaccine, 42(26), 126415.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126415

Yang, T., Wang, Y., Zhao, Q., Guo, X., Yu, S., Zhao, Z., ... & Chen, T. (2022). Age-specific transmission dynamic of mumps: a long-term large-scale modeling study in Jilin province, China. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 968702. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.968702

Yao, N., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y. Y., Wang, Q., Ji, H. Q., Xu, J. W., & Zhou, C. B. (2025). Impacts of two-dose mumps-containing vaccine strategy on mumps incidence using segmented regression models. Vaccine, 67, 127874.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127874

Yin, Z., Wen, T., Fang, Q., Zheng, C., Gong, X., Li, J., ... & Xiang, Z. (2022). Assessment of mumps-containing vaccine effectiveness by dose during 2006 to 2020 in Quzhou, China. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 18(5), 2086774. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2086774
 
Yin, Z., Zheng, C., Fang, Q., Gong, X., Cao, G., Li, J., ... & Song, W. (2021). Introduction of two‐dose mumps‐containing vaccine into routine immunization schedule in Quzhou, China, using Cox‐Proportional Hazard Model. Journal of Immunology Research, 2021(1), 5990417.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5990417
Yuqian Zhao , Yang Cao , Fang Liu , Yuanchao Li , Yiwen Sun , Zhen Li , Chong Li , Fang Wang , Jianxin
Ma, Jian Zhang & Bin Jia (2025) Challenging 21-day quarantine guidelines for mumps in Beijing: Data-driven recommendations for a high-coverage MMR vaccination era (2019–2024), Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 21:1, 2555087.  https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2555087

Zhang, S., Yang, F., & Wu, X. (2025). The dynamical behaviors of a Stochastic Mumps Infectious Disease Model. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. 48(5), 6131-6144.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.10660

Zhao, Y. Q., Wu, J., Wu, H., & Guo, S. C. (2024). Epidemiological characteristics of mumps among people aged 0-14 in Jiangxi Province, 2015-2022. Zhonghua liu Xing Bing xue za zhi= Zhonghua Liuxingbingxue Zazhi, 45(2), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20230805-00056

Zhou, C., Song, W., Yin, Z., Li, S., Gong, X., Fang, Q., & Wang, S. (2020). Assessing the changes of mumps  characteristics with different vaccination strategies using surveillance data: importance to introduce the 2‐Dose Schedule in Quzhou of China. Journal of Immunology Research, 2020(1), 8130760.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8130760

      South America

Del Valle, A., García, A. A., & Barrón, B. L. (2016). Detection of mumps virus genotype H in two previously vaccinated patients from Mexico City. Archives of Virology, 161(6), 1639-1644.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-016-2770-6
 
Méndez-Herrera, A., Arias-Toledo, E., Sánchez-Alemán, M., Olamendi-Portugal, M. L., Ruiz-Gómez, J., & Díaz-Ortega, J. L. (2018). Antibody prevalence to mumps in children and adolescents at two years of the introduction of the MMR vaccine. Salud Pública de México, 60(1), 71-76.
https://doi.org/10.21149/8138
 
Petraglia, T. C. M. B., Farias, P. M. C. M., Sá, G. R. S. E., Santos, E. M. D., Conceição, D. A. D., & Maia, M. L. S. (2020). Vaccine failures: assessing yellow fever, measles, varicella, and mumps vaccines. Falhas vacinais: avaliando vacinas febre amarela, sarampo, varicela e caxumba. Cadernos de saude publica, 36Suppl 2(Suppl 2), e00008520. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00008520
 

Santacruz-Sanmartín, E., Hincapié-Palacio, D., Ospina, M. C., Perez-Toro, O., Bernal-Restrepo, L. M., Buitrago-Giraldo, S., ... & Díaz, F. J. (2015). Seroprevalence of mumps in an epidemic period in Medellín, Colombia. Vaccine, 33(42), 5606-5612.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.088

Urbano, P. R., Fujita, D. M., & Romano, C. M. (2017). Reemergence of mumps in São Paulo, Brazil: The urgent need for booster shot campaign to prevent a serious infectious disease. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 50, 535-538. https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0320-2016