Placental and breast transfer of antibodies after maternal immunization with polysaccharide meningococcal vaccine: A randomized, controlled evaluation

Vaccine

Volumn 20, Issue 17-18, 2002, Pages 2404-2409

  Shahid, Nigar S ^a   Steinhoff, Mark C ^b,c   Roy, Eliza ^a   Begum, Tahmina ^a   Thompson, Claudette M ^d   Siber, George R ^e  

^a ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Maternal immunization; Meningococcal vaccine; Passive immunity; Placental transfer

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASIA; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BREAST; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INFANT; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037157245     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(02)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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