Maternal immunization with the capsular polysaccharide vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae type b.

Maternal immunization with the capsular polysaccharide (PRP) vaccine of Haemophilus influenzae type b has been shown to extend the time that protective levels of maternal antibody are detected in infants. In a randomized, blinded trial, PRP or placebo was administered uneventfully to 213 women in the third trimester of pregnancy. Infants born to PRP recipients had significantly higher levels of antibody to PRP than did infants born to placebo recipients: 2.

Nosocomial influenza in a general hospital for indigent patients.

Surveillance of influenza virus infections was maintained on the medical and pediatric wards of a general hospital serving indigent patients of Harris County, Texas during the winter of 1987-88. Influenza A/Sichuan/2/87(H3N2) was the predominant virus during the community epidemic. Influenza A(H3N2) virus was isolated from six of 17 adult patients (35%) suspected to have nosocomial infections; two of these patients died of fulminating pneumonia.