Measles Vaccines

Measles vaccines: WHO position paper

In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international impact on public health. These papers, which are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes, summarize essential backgro...

A comparative study of two live measles vaccines in Iran

Aerosolized measles and measles-rubella vaccines induce better measles antibody booster responses than injected vaccines: randomized trials in Mexican schoolchildren.

OBJECTIVE To compare antibody responses and side-effects of aerosolized and injected measles vaccines after revaccination of children enrolling in elementary schools. METHODS Vaccines for measles (Edmonston-Zagreb) or measles-rubella (Edmonston-Zagreb with RA27/3) were given by aerosol or injection to four groups of children. An additional group received Schwarz measles vaccine by injection. ...

Live Attenuated Measles Mumps and Rubella Vaccines:

Abbreviations: MMR: Measles, Mumps and Rubella; WHO: World Health Organization; SSPE: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis; PAHO: Pan American Health Organization; CRS: Congenital Rubella Syndrome; MR: Measles-Rubella; GSK: GlaxoSmithKline; EZ: Edmonston Zagreb; CEF: Chicken Embryo Fibroblast; IBD: Inflammatory Bowel Disease; CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; SSPE: Subacute Sclero...

High-titre measles vaccines for boys.

From data in the thesis and using a different cut-off of -2. z-scores Garenne concludes that EZ-HT measles vaccine is de!ererious for boys, the difference being especially striking for wasting (weight-for-height). It should be noted that with a prevalence of 6.3% and 2.0% for EZ-HT and SW-STD boys, respectively (table), wasting was uncommon in bo& groups, being acrually lower than expeczed (2.5...