Hib PS-vaccinated patients (VP) who develop Hib disease have deficient serum antibody (AB) responses to Hib PS despite normal concentrations of Ig and tetanus AB (NEJM 1986;315). We now report the IgG ...

Twenty-six healthy children previously immunized (imm) with the Hib capsular polysaccharide (Hib CP) vaccine at age 19 to 38 mos (GM=28 mos; 1 of 26 <24 mos) developed Hib systemic disease at age 22 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pediatricians and public health officials need to be sure that complete serotype data on patients infected with ...

Most Hib infections are asymptomatic (have no symptoms). Before the introduction of the Hib vaccine, invasive Hib was a disease of low incidence, occurring in about 1 in 68,000 (0.0015%) in the U.S.

Historically, the highest incidence rates of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in the world were found in North American and Australian Indigenous children. Although immunization against H.

London, UK, 09 August 2006 – The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) today publishes research showing that routine vaccination of infants in Kenya against H. influenzae Type b (Hib) ...

Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, is a term few know, but it can lead to extremely serious sickness in children. There was a sad story out of Indiana recently that brought this infection into the ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the Detroit Public Schools Community District confirmed there were cases of Haemophilus influenzae in students at Marcus Garvey ...

The ACIP discussed several vaccines during the 2-day meeting, including those for protection against COVID-19, Chikungunya, diphtheria and tetanus (DT), Hemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), polio, ...

Even though Liam Dahlberg was vaccinated before his death earlier this year, he attended school in an Indiana county where ...

Since the introduction of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines, meningitis caused by serotypes other than Hib has gained in importance. We conducted active hospital-based ...

Ashlee Dahlberg’s son, Liam, came home from school with a headache; the next day he was rushed to the hospital, nearly unresponsive An MRI that showed the 8-year-old's brain and spinal cord were ...