TY  - JOUR
T1  - Questioning the Acceptability of Mothers’ Age as a Determinant of Passive Measles Immunity in Newborn Infants
AU - Baba, U.A. AU - Lawan, M.B. AU - Farouk, A.G. AU - Machoko, Y. AU - Ibrahim, H.U. AU - Elechi, H.A. 
JO  - International Journal of Tropical Medicine
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SP  - 108
EP  - 110
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-3319
DO  - ijtmed.2012.108.110
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijtmed.2012.108.110
KW  - Maternal age
KW  -maternal measles antibodies
KW  -newborn infants
KW  -population
KW  -Maiduguri
AB  - Maternal Measles Antibodies (MMA) are primarily IgG<sub>1</sub> 
  and are actively transferred through the placenta from mother to fetus. It protects 
  infants from measles during the early critical months of infancy. As with maternal 
  antibodies to other antigens, MMA declines and it is typically absent by the 
  end of the 1st year of life. Several factors like race, parity and age have 
  been put forward as a possible cause of variation of MMA within different populations 
  of the world. Researchers investigated maternal age as a predictor of MMA in 
  newborn infant in Maiduguri. One hundred and eighty mother-infant pairs were 
  enrolled into this study using the Systematic Random Sampling Method between 
  10th January and 21st March 2010 and tested for MMA. The 92 (51.1%) of the newborn 
  infants were males and 88 (48.9%) females, giving an approximate male to female 
  ratio of 1.05:1. Maternal measles antibodies were measured using Enzyme Linked 
  Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and correlated with maternal age. Significant correlation 
  existed between mean maternal age and mean MMA of newborn infants at birth (r 
  = 0.784, t = 20.89, p = 0.000). Advancing maternal age was associated with increased 
  MMA in newborn infants at birth.
ER  -