measles immunization in iran

Measles immunization in IRAN

Age of Measles immunization in tropics

Excessive Attenuation of Measles Virus as a Possible Cause of Failure in Measles Immunization

The unfinished measles immunization agenda.

Despite achieving and sustaining global measles vaccination coverage of about 80% over the past decade, worldwide measles remains the fifth leading cause of mortality among children aged <5 years. In May 2002, the United Nations Special Session on Children endorsed the goal of reducing measles deaths by half by 2005. Countries and World Health Organization (WHO) regions that adopted aggressive ...

age of measles immunization in tropics

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Age of measles immunization in tropics.

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 of detectable hemagglutination-inhibition antibody was 16 for newborn children. This titer was absent in most children aged 3 to 5 months. Our previous studies indicate that from 1970 to 1972, children from the lower so...