Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety

Immune overload

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14 July 2006 - Immunogenic overload (from meeting of 6-7 June 2006)

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Potential immunologic overload resulting from concomitant vaccination with too many antigens. Presented by David Goldblatt at the meeting of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety held on 6-7 June 2006
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References

Offit PA, Quarles J, Gerber M, Hackett C, et al. Addressing parents' concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant's immune system? Paediatrics 2002; 109: 124-9. Abstract
Miller E et al. Bacterial infections, immune overload, and MMR vaccine. Arch Dis Child 2003;88: 222-3. Abstract
Hilton S, Petticrew M, Hunt K. Combined vaccines are like a sudden onslaught to the body's immune system': Parental concerns about vaccine 'overload' and 'immune-vulnerability'. Vaccine 2006 May 15;24(20):4321-7. Abstract

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