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Article: Full vaccination wards off influenza in young children.
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Full immunization in children aged 6-59 months and partial immunization in children aged 24-59 months provide significant protection from influenza, even when the match between vaccine and circulating strains is suboptimal, Carrie M. Shuler, D.V.M., an epidemiologist with the Georgia Division of Public Health, and her colleagues reported.
However, children aged 6-23 months with partial vaccination had no benefit in terms of influenza protection, the authors wrote (Pediatrics 2007;119:587-95).
The researchers evaluated the effectiveness of the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine at a private pediatric practice in Atlanta during the 2003-2004 ...