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Specificity of bactericidal antibody response to serogroup B meningococcal strains in Brazilian children after immunization with an outer membrane vaccine.
Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 1998
Milagres L G, Gorla M C, Sacchi C T, Rodrigues M M
Abstract excerpt
Pre- and postvaccination serum samples from 77 children aged 2 to 6 years, who received the Cuban BC vaccine (B:4:P1.15), were analyzed for bactericidal antibodies against a local B:4:P1.15 strain (N44/89). Sera from 16 individuals with bactericidal antibodies against the B:4:P1.15 strain were tested against 23 Brazilian isolates. These include B:4 strains of distinct serosubtypes: P1.15, P1.7,1, P1.3, P1.9,...
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