No persistent T lymphocyte immunosuppression or increased mortality after measles infection: A community study from Guinea-Bissau
No persistent T lymphocyte immunosuppression or increased mortality after measles infection: A community study from Guinea-Bissau
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DOI:
10.1097/00006454-199601000-00009
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发表时间:
1996-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Whittle, H
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作者:
Aaby, P;Lisse, IM;Whittle, H
Background. Because measles immunization is reducing overall childhood mortality in addition to mortality from acute measles infection, it has been suggested that postmeasles cases have excess mortality, possibly related to persistent immunosuppression after measles infection. After an epidemic in 1988 in Guinea-Bissau, we there fore examined T lymphocyte subsets and long term survival among measles cases and controls,Methods. We examined 69 children 2 months after infection had slightly higher CD4 counts than controls (P = 0.06), Adjusted for age, sex and immunization status, postmeasles cases had a mortality rate ratio of 0.50 (95% confidence interval, 0.22 to 1.16) (P = 0.11) compared with controls.Conclusions. There is no indication of persistent suppression of T cell subsets after measles infection, and postmeasles cases did not have higher mortality than uninfected community controls.