691: Do pregnant women have lower than expected measles antibody titers?

Recombinant influenza H7 hemagglutinins induce lower neutralizing antibody titers in mice than do seasonal hemagglutinins

BACKGROUND Vaccines against avian influenza viruses often require high hemagglutinin (HA) doses or adjuvants to achieve serological titers associated with protection against disease. In particular, viruses of the H7 subtype frequently do not induce strong antibody responses following immunization. OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether poor immunogenicity of H7 viruses is an intrinsic property of the...

Do pregnant women have (living) will?

Changes in the prevalence of the measles, rubella, varicella-zoster, and mumps virus antibody titers in Japanese pregnant women.

In the present study, immunity against infectious diseases, which are capable of influencing both the mother and fetus during pregnancy and the infant in the postnatal period, were assessed in pregnant women to elucidate the necessity of vaccination during the childbearing age. It was determined that there was a trend of increases in the proportion of patients that had low antibody titers obser...

Do elderly women have more physical disability than men do?

This study investigated whether the commonly observed higher prevalence of physical disability among women is due to higher incidence rates or to other factors such as selective mortality or poor recovery. Methods included observed measures of prevalent lower body physical disability and potential risk factors at baseline (1989-1991) and 4-year follow-up of 2,025 community-dwelling adults aged ...

Serum Antibody Titers of Measles and Rubella among Japanese Children

Background: The rubella outbreak in Japan has not yet been eliminated. In particular, an outbreak of congenital rubella syndrome has recently become a public health problem in Japan. The World Health Organization has set an elimination target of 2015 for measles in Japan. However, an outbreak of measles occurred in Japan between 2007 and 2008. Starting in April 2006, the measles and rubella vac...