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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1992; 15(3):195-200

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1992.15.3.195

Original Article

Measles Antibody Titers by Gestational Age in Cord Sera and by Postnatal Age in Nonimmunrized Infants

Gyoung Hee Kim

Copyright ⓒ 1992. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

There is still controversy about the optimum age for measles vaccination. This study was undertaken to collect reliable data in order to determine to optimum age for measles vaccination for our children.

ELISA test was done in 136 cord sera and in 91 non-immunized infants against measles. The results were as follows

1) There is no significant difference of measles antibody titers by gestational age.

2) A significant downward trend was found in measles antibody titers from early infancy to 12 month of age.