Maternal mumps antibodies in a cohort of children up to the age of 1 year

Last updated on 23-8-2019 by Anonymous (non vérifié)

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The duration of the presence of maternal mumps antibodies in a prospective cohort study is presented. Immunoglobulin G against mumps was portioned with a commercial ELISA test (Euroimmun(R) anti-mumps Virus AT ELISA, Germany) on samples from 213 mother-child pairs at seven time points between pregnancy and 12 months of age. Non-linear mixed models were used to model maternal antibody decay in infants. The model-based median time to loss of antibodies was 3.6 months. The median child-specific time to loss of antibodies in children of naturally immune women (3.8 months) and children of vaccin…

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