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A randomised controlled study of the reactogenicity of an acellular pertussis-containing pentavalent infant vaccine compared to a quadrivalent whole cell pertussis-containing vaccine and oral poliomyelitis vaccine, when given concurrently with meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine to healthy UK infants at 2, 3 and 4 months of age

  • Nicholas Kitchin*
  • , Joanna Southern
  • , Rhonwen Morris
  • , Fabienne Hemme
  • , Keith Cartwright
  • , Michael Watson
  • , Elizabeth Miller
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Two hundred forty-one healthy infants were enrolled in an open randomised controlled study of three doses of DTaP-IPV-Hib (Group 1) or DTwP/Hib + OPV (Group 2) at 2, 3 and 4 months of age given concurrently with a meningitis C conjugate vaccine. After each dose, local reactions (any grade) were less common in Group 1 than Group 2 (p < 0.03). Axillary temperature >37.5 °C, decreased feeding, reduced activity, irritability and crying in the week after vaccination were also less common in Group 1 than Group 2 (p < 0.05 for each symptom, all doses combined). Severe local reactions and systemic symptoms were uncommon and occurred equally in both groups. The pentavalent DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccine was less reactogenic than the quadrivalent DTwP-Hib vaccine, as expected when changing from whole cell pertussis (wP) to an acellular pertussis (aP) component.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3964-3970
    Number of pages7
    JournalVaccine
    Volume24
    Issue number18
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2006

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Funding: The field costs of the study were supported by Sanofi Pasteur MSD. J.S. and R.M. were supported by a grant from the Department of Health Research and Development Directorate (grant number 1217470).

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    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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    Keywords

    • Acellular pertussis
    • Combination vaccine
    • Safety

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