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Child Mortality Following Standard, Medium or High Titre Measles Immunization in West Africa
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* Epidemiology Research Unit, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen Denmark.
** Biostatistical Department, University of Copenhagen Denmark.
ORSTOM, UR Maladies Infectieuses et Parasitaires, Dakar Senegal
MRC Laboratories Banjul, The Gambia.
§ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine United Kingdom.
Reprint requests to: Peter Aaby, Epidemiology Research Unit, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Seruminstitut, 5 Artillerivej, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark.
BACKGROUND: The World Hearth Organization (WHO) recommended the use of high titre measles vaccine In 1989 Subsequent long term follow-up of several trials yielded results suggesting higher mortality among children inoculated with medium and high titre vaccines compared to standard titre vaccines, although none of the individual trials found significant differences in mortality.
METHODS: Long term survival after standard, medium and high titre measles vaccines has been investigated in a combined analysis of all West African trials with mortality data. In trials from Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia and Senegal, children received medium or high titre vaccines from 4 months of age and were compared to control groups recruited at the same time later receiving standard titre vaccine from 9 months of age. All children were followed up to at least 3 years old.
RESULTS: Combining trials of high titre vaccines showed higher mortality among the high titre group compared to the standard group: mortality ratio (MR) = 1.33 (95% CI : 1.02–1.73). Mortality among recipients of medium titre vaccines was not different from that in the standard vaccine group, MR = 1.11 (95% CI : 0.54–2.27). In a combined analysis by sex, the adjusted mortality ratios comparing high titre vaccine with standard vaccine were 1.86 (95% CI : 1.28–2.70) for females and 0.91 (95% CI : 0.61–1.35) for males. The trials were not designed to study long term mortality. Adjustments for several possible sources of bias did not alter the results.
CONCLUSIONS: The combined analysis showed a decreased survival related to high titre measles vaccine compared with standard titre vaccines, though solely among females. As a result of these studies from West Africa and a study from Haiti, WHO has recommended that high titre measles vaccine no longer be used.
Keywords measles, high titre measles vaccines, childhood mortality, sex-specific mortality, combined analysis, vaccine safety
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