A PREVENTIVE APPROACH TO IMPETIGO OF TREATY INDIANS USING STAPHYLOCOCCUS POLYVALENT SOMATIC ANTIGEN VACCINE.

In a controlled study, Greenberg's staphylococcal polyvalent somatic antigen vaccine was administered to 190 Indian volunteers of a reserve in Saskatchewan in an attempt to reduce the incidence of impetigo. An intradermal skin test dose of 0.1 ml. was given initially. Reactors were forthwith placed in a separate category, otherwise this test injection was followed by intramuscular injection of 0.25 ml. of the vaccine, repeated a second time after six weeks. One hundred and sixty-nine controls received "placebo vaccine". Four months later the number of cases of impetigo in the vaccinated group had been reduced from 55 to 16. There was no reduction in the control group. The preventive effect waned after five months. The results of this field trial are considered encouraging.

RCT Entities:   Population Interventions Outcomes