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P Aaby1, T G Jensen, H L Hansen, H Kristiansen, J Thårup, A Poulsen, M Sodemann, M Jakobsen, K Knudsen, M Clotilde da Silva.
Abstract
In a randomised study of 558 children in an urban African community, the protective effect of the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ) measles vaccine given in a dose of 40,000 plaque forming units from the age of 4 months was compared with the effects of a standard dose (6000 tissue culture infectious units) of Schwarz measles vaccine given from the age of 9 months. During two years of follow-up, all 14 clinical cases of measles occurred in the Schwarz group; 10 of the children contracted measles before vaccination and 4 after measles vaccination. Thus the EZ vaccine provided significant protection against measles both before and after the usual age of vaccination. Among the children who were exposed to measles at home, those given EZ vaccine were better protected than either unvaccinated children or those given the Schwarz vaccine.Entities:
Keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Age Factors; Child; Child Mortality; Data Collection; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diseases; Evaluation; Guinea-bissau; Health; Health Services; Immunization; Infections; Measles--prevention and control; Mortality; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Portuguese Speaking Africa; Primary Health Care; Research Methodology; Vaccination; Viral Diseases; Western Africa; Youth
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Year: 1988 PMID： 2902263 DOI： 10.1016/s0140-6736(88)92780-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321