Re: Reaction to Vaccine

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Titers measure antibody response. But vaccines also operate through a second
mode of cell mediated response and this is not measured by antibody titers.
The only specific vaccine that I have seen much data on is rabies, where
challenge tests have established a reasonable reliability of titers. Perhaps
someone else had more information on this issue.

One other point is that vaccines do not all have the same effective life -
each one has to be evaluated independently.



Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Roberta Jo Lieberman <woik@home.com>
[snip]

The following methods of reducing the risk of vaccine-related problems
cited in the article includes:

. <instead of automatic revaccination>, measure antibodies through titer
testing and revaccinate when indicated by low titers

[snip]
Bobbie
in Southern Calif.


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