Bacterial infections, immune overload, and MMR vaccine

Open Access

1 March 2003

journal article
Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood

Vol. 88 (3) , 222-223
https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.3.222

Abstract

Combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine did not increase the risk of hospitalisation with invasive bacterial infection in the three months after vaccination; rather there was a protective effect. These results provide no support for the concept of “immunological overload” induced by multiple antigen vaccinations, nor calls for single antigen vaccines.

Keywords

MMR VACCINE
VACCINE SAFETY
IMMUNE INTERFERENCE
IMMUNE OVERLOAD
MMR
MEASLES
MUMPS
AND RUBELLA
RELATIVE INCIDENCE

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