The efficacy of immunizing children who are forced migrants against diphtheria and tetanus based on the results of serological studies

Nikitiuk, N.F.

Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 2000(3): 75-76

2000


ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311
PMID: 10925883
Document Number: 519912
The results of the serological study of 2,352 children aged 1-6 years who had arrived to the territory of the region without any documents on past immunization revealed that most of these children had sufficiently pronounced specific immunity to diphtheria (66.4%) and tetanus (83.6%) Thus the tactics of the prophylactic immunization of children having no relevant documents must be worked out with due regard to the results of serological studies.

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