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D Elliman

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Safety and immunogenicity of three lots of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine administered at 2, 3 and 4 months of age.

The reactogenicity and immunogenicity of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MenC) vaccine was assessed in 322 infants vaccinated at 2, 3, and 4 months of age, with concomitant administration of mixed diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell pertussis vaccine and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine (DTwP-Hib) and oral polio vaccine. All infants in whom post-vaccination meningococcal C anticapsular IgG levels were assayed (n = 265) attained > or = 2 microg ml(-1). Serum bactericidal titres were assayed for a proportion of subjects (n = 171), 98% of whom obtained a reciprocal titres > or = 8. Local reactions were less frequent at the MenC injection site than at the DTP-Hib site. Systemic events were frequent, but consistent with established DTwP-Hib experience. The study demonstrates that MenC vaccine is immunogenic and well tolerated in infants at manufacturing scale production levels.

Antibodies, Bacterial↗

Clumsiness in children--do they grow out of it? A 10-year follow-up study.

The question of whether problems of motor co-ordination in early childhood recede with age has rarely been addressed. This paper reports the findings from a follow-up study of 17 children, identified by their teachers as having poor motor co-ordination at age six. Now age 16, these children and their matched controls completed a battery of assessments. The results suggest that the majority of children still have difficulties with motor co-ordination, have poor self-concept and are experiencing problems of various kinds in school. However, there are individual differences in the extent to which the children have learned to cope with their continuing difficulties over the years.

Achievement↗