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2003 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have reported the molecular epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae type b isolated from children with clinical cases of conjugate vaccine failures.
"We analyzed eight invasive Haemophilus influenzae strains isolated from individual children vaccinated appropriately for their ages. Five of the strains were type b and three were nontypeable strains," investigators in Spain report.
"Children infected with nontypeable strains had a protective level of anti-H. influenzae type b antibodies, while only one of the children whose cases represented true vaccine failure did," wrote Jose Campos and colleagues at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Campos and his coauthors published their study in the Journal of Clinical ...