Early two-dose measles vaccination schedule in Guinea-Bissau: good protection and coverage in infancy.
Open Access
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 28 (2) , 347-352
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/28.2.347
Abstract
Previous studies from Africa have suggested that there is little benefit to be gained from early two-dose measles vaccination schedules. Two-dose schedules have been associated with no improvement in coverage due to immunization of the same individuals on both occasions, low return rate, high refusal rate, low vaccine efficacy, and fear of blunting of the antibody response. Because of the poor results achieved previously with two-dose measles vaccination schedules, we studied patterns of participation, reasons for non-participation, vaccination coverage and relative efficacy of a one-dose versus a two-dose schedule in connection with the implementation of an early two-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau.Keywords
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