Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume 53 Issue 7 October 1, 2011
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cid/current

ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES
J. Anthony G. Scott, John Ojal, Lindsey Ashton, Anne Muhoro, Polly Burbidge, and David Goldblatt
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Given Shortly After Birth Stimulates Effective Antibody Concentrations and Primes Immunological Memory for Sustained Infant Protection
Clin Infect Dis. (2011) 53(7): 663-670 doi:10.1093/cid/cir444

Immunization of Kenyan newborns with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is safe and immunogenic. Compared with the Expanded Programme on Immunization schedule beginning at 6 weeks, it stimulates similar antibody concentrations at 18 weeks and induces equal responses to a 9-month booster dose.

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