Ninety children, ages 7 to 13 years, who had received Edmonston B live measles vaccine
and gamma globulin simultaneously 6 to 9 years ago were reimmunized and their antibody …

A fundamental unresolved issue in vaccinology is the inhibition of vaccination against
infectious diseases of humans and animals by maternal antibodies. To understand this …

Maternal immunity to measles was studied in a group of 500 newborn children and another
group of 500 children aged one to 12 months, before vaccination. The geometric mean titer …

• During a measles immunization campaign 203 children were enrolled in an antibody
response study. Of this group, follow-up clinical data and sera samples were available from …

Antibody titres were determined in 102 Thai infants who were vaccinated at 9-months of age
during the respiratory disease season. The symptom densities of illnesses at or following …

Objective To investigate the duration of the presence of maternal antibodies to measles in
infants. Design Prospective study (May 2006 to November 2008). Setting Five hospitals in …

The most important factor affecting the success of measles immunization is the
disappearance of maternal anti‐measles antibodies. In order to determine the optimum age …

MANY of the previous reports of children immunized with killed measles vaccine 1-5 have
covered fairly short periods of observation, and the exposure of patients to a measles …

The decline of maternally acquired haemagglutination inhibiting antibodies against measles
virus in Nigerian children born in Lagos was studied. At birth all the 303 children whose cord …

Serum antibody response and skin test reactivity to intradermal measles antigens were
studied in 3 groups of children who differed in their prior experience with natural measles or …