1. Maternal immunity to measles and infant immunity at less than twelve months of age relative to maternal place of birth
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William J. Bellini, Kenneth Bromberg, Linda Marcellino, Hilary Light, Dean D. Erdman, Janet L. Heath, Marlene Rivera, Margaret Clark-Golden, Binita R. Shah, and Ping-Wu Li
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Georgia ,Mothers ,Antibodies, Viral ,Active immunization ,Measles ,Measles virus ,Humans ,Medicine ,Maternal immunity ,biology ,business.industry ,Urban Health ,Infant ,Place of birth ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Immunology ,biology.protein ,Female ,Viral disease ,Measles vaccine ,Antibody ,business - Abstract
Sera from infants aged 5 to 11 months and from their mothers were used to investigate the level and duration of transplacentally derived measles antibody. The infants of foreign-born, inner-city mothers were more likely to have measles antibody and were less likely to get measles. Infants of foreign-born mothers, because they are less likely to respond to measles vaccine, may require different vaccine strategies than infants of mothers born in the United States.
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- 1994
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