"A Study of Maternally Derived Measles Antibody in Infants Born to Naturally Infected and Vaccinated Women."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Epidemiology and Infection, "Maternal, cord and infant measles antibody levels were measured and compared in a group of 411 vaccinated mothers and 240 unvaccinated mothers, and their babies, between 1983 and 1991. Maternal and cord sera were tested by haemagglutination inhibition and/or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and plaque reduction neutralization tests were also used to test infant sera. Geometric mean titres were significantly higher in the unvaccinated than in the vaccinated mothers (P<0.001). Infants born to mothers with a history of measles had higher antibody levels at birth than infants of vaccinated...

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