Mumps (cont.)
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Jagvir Singh, MD
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Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM
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Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD
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Jeter (Jay) Pritchard Taylor III, MD
IN THIS ARTICLENext StepsPreventionAll children in the United States are routinely immunized against mumps with the combined vaccine called MMR (measles, mumps, rubella). |
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Mumps is a single-stranded RNA virus and a member of the family Paramyxoviridae, genus Paramyxovirus.
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