Antimeasles antibodies in children submitted to different vaccination schedules

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira,Solange Artimos de
• Data de Publicação: 1993
• Outros Autores: Homma,Akira, Camillo-Coura,Léa, Loureiro,Maria Lucília P., Almeida,Maria Teresa G. N. de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821993000200002
• topic: Measles vaccine; Immunology; Epidemiology

ln order to study the measles antibody behavior of three vaccination schedules, 684 children were divided into 4 Groups: Group A (341 vaccinated children under the age of one); Group B (101 children at the age of one); Group C (74 children under the age of one and one at the age of one); Group D (163 unvaccinated children with a history of measles in the past - Group control). Children of Group A presented lower rates and 25.9% of the age group under two did not show any measles antibodies. In Group B, all the children presented antibodies. In Group C onby 4.0% did not. In all age groups, the geometric mean HI antibody titers of Group A were lower than the valuesfound in the other groups. The age at vaccination was the factor of greater influence on the results of this study.