Table 1. Summary of the suspected measles cases from MSS during 2014–2017.
Year | No. of suspected cases | Measles IgM test | Real-time RT-PCR test | No. of confirmed measles cases | |||||
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No. of cases | No. of Positive (%) | No. of cases | No. of Positive (%) | Laboratory-confirmed | Epidemiologically confirmed | Clinically confirmed | Total cases | ||
2014 | 127,554 | 111,432 | 45,805 (41.1%) | 17,889 | 5,137 (28.7%) | 48,344 | 136 | 4,184 | 52,664 |
2015 | 104,948 | 96,918 | 37,555 (38.7%) | 38,548 | 13,766 (35.7%) | 40,717 | 161 | 1,504 | 42,382 |
2016 | 69,288 | 64,123 | 22,135 (34.5%) | 26,098 | 8,534 (32.7%) | 23,916 | 44 | 879 | 24,839 |
2017 | 36,854 | 34,583 | 5,067 (14.7%) | 16,164 | 1,755 (10.9%) | 5,131 | 50 | 812 | 5,993 |
Total | 338,644 | 307,056 | 110,562 (36.0%) | 98,699 | 29,192 (29.6%) | 118,108 | 391 | 7,379 | 125,878 |