[Chickenpox prevention in patients at risk with a special immunoglobulin].

Chickenpox, which normally is an innocuous disease in children, may cause serious sequelae in immunocompromised hosts. An open prospective study is presented, that comprised 96 of such patients. They were treated with 0,2 ml/kg Varicella-Zoster-Immunoglobulin (VZIG) prophylactically or after exposure.

Frequency, serodiagnosis and epidemiological features of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and epidemiology and vaccination policy for measles in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).

In the FRG, SSPE, a slow infection of the brain in children and young adults, known to be associated with a chronic measles virus infection, has an estimated incidence of 2.6 cases per million total population (61 million) and 9.7 cases per million population below the age of 19 years (16 million).

Differences in the appearance of antibodies to structural components of measles virus after immunization with inactivated and live virus.

Children immunized with inactivated (Tween 80 and diethyl ether, TE) measles vaccine, attenuated live vaccine, or a combination of the two types were studied with regard to the production of hemagglutination-inhibiting (HAI), hemolysis-inhibiting (HLI), and nucleocapsid complement-fixing (CF) antibodies. For identification of antibodies to envelope components distinct from hemagglutinin. HLI tests were done both before and after removal of HAI antibodies with TE-treated virus antigen.

[Measles vaccination with split vaccines and living vaccines (author's transl)].

Two vaccination groups were observed over four years. One group received multiple preliminary vaccinations with measles split vaccine and were subsequently immunised with measles live vaccine. The second group received live vaccine only.