scholarly journals Meningitis caused by Neisseria Meningitidis, Hemophilus Influenzae Type B and Streptococcus Pneumoniae during 2005–2012 in Turkey

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2706-2712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ceyhan ◽  
Nezahat Gürler ◽  
Yasemin Ozsurekci ◽  
Melike Keser ◽  
Ahmet Emre Aycan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Streptococcus Pneumoniae ◽  
Neisseria Meningitidis ◽  
Type B ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae Type B

Frequency of Detection of Hemophilus influenzae Type b Capsular Polysaccharide in Infants and Children With Pneumonia

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-268
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Wald ◽  
Myron M. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Streptococcus Pneumoniae ◽  
Capsular Polysaccharide ◽  
Blood Cultures ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Type B ◽  
Radiographic Evidence ◽  
Hemolytic Streptococcus ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae Type B ◽  
In Infants And Children

Countercurrent immunoelectrophoresis was used to detect H. influenzae type b antigen in sera of 65 consecutive infants and children with clinical and radiographic evidence of pneumonia. Antigenemia was observed in only one patient who also had H. influenzae type b bacteremia. Blood cultures from four other children were positive for H. aphrophilus (one), Streptococcus pneumoniae (two), and an α-hemolytic Streptococcus (one). The frequency of pharyngeal colonization with H. influenzae type b was similar in children with or without pneumonia. If H. influenzae type b was the cause of pneumonitis in the children studied, it occurred without bacteremia or antigenemia.

RESPONSES OF CHILDREN IMMUNIZED WITH THE CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE OF HEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE, TYPE b

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-644
Author(s):  
David H. Smith ◽  
Georges Peter ◽  
David L. Ingram ◽  
A. Lynn Harding ◽  
Porter Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Capsular Polysaccharide ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Antibody Concentration ◽  
Antibody Activity ◽  
Antigen Binding ◽  
Type B ◽  
Intramuscular Dose ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae ◽  
Age Dependent ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae Type B

One hundred forty-one children of 5 to 59 months of age were immunized with a single intramuscular dose of 0.67, 3.3, 17, or 67µg polyribophosphate (PRP), the capsular antigen of Hemophilus influenzae, type b. The immunizations were well tolerated, particularly at doses of .67 to 17µg. Antibody activity was measured by radioactive antigen binding, using 3H-labelled PRP. Doses of 3.3 and 17µg produced significant antibody rises in nearly 90% of recipients; 0.67 and 67µg in approximately half. The geometric mean titers were similar at three and six weeks after immunization and were greater with the middle doses. The net antibody increase in responding children was strongly age dependent, but was not related to the preimmunization antibody concentration. Rises in serum bactericidal activity against H. influenzae type b generally accompanied rises in antibody concentration as measured by the antigen-binding assay.

Prevention of Hemophilus influenzae type b disease

JAMA ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 251 (18) ◽  
pp. 2381-2386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Band
Keyword(s):  
Type B ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae ◽  
Hemophilus Influenzae Type B
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