Diphtheria

Vaccination Protects Adult Community

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 20th, 2001

by Michelle Marble, staff medical writer -- Researchers in Sweden conducted a study to see if adult vaccination could be used to help stem the tide of a diphtheria epidemic in the former Soviet Union.

The researchers wanted to raise adult immunity to diphtheria in Stockholm with a vaccination campaign. "The rationale behind the campaign, conducted during 1995-1996, was the re-emergence of epidemic diphtheria in the countries of the former Soviet Union and earlier surveys of immunity to diphtheria showing low levels of protection in adults," said B. Christenson and colleagues, Karolinska Hospital.

"The impact of the vaccination campaign was measured...

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