Smallpox vaccination confers long lasting immunity

The results support other work that found long term immunity from smallpox vaccination. A recent small study from North Carolina found a durable T cell response to vaccinia in people immunised up to 35 years earlier and concluded that smallpox vaccine could give long lasting immunity (New EnglandJou...

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Published inBMJ. British medical journal (International ed.) Vol. 326; no. 7400; p. 1164
Main Author Josefson, Deborah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London BMJ Publishing Group 31.05.2003
EditionInternational edition
Subjects
Immune system
Smallpox
Vaccines
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Summary:The results support other work that found long term immunity from smallpox vaccination. A recent small study from North Carolina found a durable T cell response to vaccinia in people immunised up to 35 years earlier and concluded that smallpox vaccine could give long lasting immunity (New EnglandJournal of Medici 2002;347:689-90).
ISSN:0959-8146