Hib PS-vaccinated patients (VP) who develop Hib disease have deficient serum antibody (AB) responses to Hib PS despite normal concentrations of Ig and tetanus AB (NEJM 1986;315). We now report the IgG ...
Twenty-six healthy children previously immunized (imm) with the Hib capsular polysaccharide (Hib CP) vaccine at age 19 to 38 mos (GM=28 mos; 1 of 26 <24 mos) developed Hib systemic disease at age 22 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elizabeth C. Briere, MD, MPH, of the CDC’s Division of Bacterial Diseases in the National Center for ...
Epidemiology and Infection, Vol. 140, No. 8 (AUGUST 2012), pp. 1343-1355 (13 pages) Global coverage of infant Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccination has increased considerably during the past ...
Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, is a term few know, but it can lead to extremely serious sickness in children. There was a sad story out of Indiana recently that brought this infection into the ...
Petri dish with a brown agar base, featuring clusters of small, round, pink bacterial colonies of H. Influenza. Blue handwritten text on the lid. A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to ...
(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the Detroit Public Schools Community District confirmed there were cases of Haemophilus influenzae in students at Marcus Garvey ...
Dr. Benjamin Mateus is a practicing physician in the United States and has written extensively on the COVID-19 pandemic for the World Socialist Web Site. To get involved in the fight for safe schools, ...
GSK [LSE/NYSE: GSK] announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an expanded age indication for HIBERIX® [Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate)]. HIBERIX® ...
Credit: Getty Images The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices convened to vote on new vaccine recommendations at their first meeting of 2024. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
A study surveying the genetic variation of a bacterium that causes pneumonia and middle-ear infections in children sheds new light on the transmission and evolution of the species. A new study reveals ...
A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts say. Published today (31 October) in Nature Microbiology, they uncovered ...