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Military doctors call for reinstating adenovirus vaccination program in recruits.
2002 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Navy medical researchers say an adenovirus immunization program urgently needs to be reinstituted for military recruits.
"Outbreaks of adenovirus type 4 (Ad4) acute respiratory disease (ARD) have reemerged among U.S. military personnel during the past decade," wrote S.A. Kolavic-Gray and colleagues, U.S. Navy, Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima.
They provided evidence of this by conducting a prospective epidemiological investigation at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. Of 678 military recruits, 115 (17%) contracted febrile ARD and had to be hospitalized, the researchers said.
"Adenovirus types 4, 3, and 21 were recovered from the cultures of 70 (72%), 7 (7%), and 2 (2%) of 97 recruits, respectively. In addition, 69 (83%) of the 83 hospitalized and 82 (49%) of the 166 nonhospitalized unit contacts had seroconversion to Ad4, which indicates the very high susceptibility and communicability of Ad4 among military recruits," Kolavic-Gray and associates said.
They noted that males under age 20 were at increased risk for anti-Ad4 seroconversion. They also found that "[r]ecruits from ...
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