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Posted On : 08 Apr 2009

Is there any superiority of GSK MMR vaccine over Serum MMR_?

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bharat vanani

no, b`cos availeble data are not sufficient.

15 years ago

DR CHANDRA MOHAN KUMAR

No,
Rather in my opinion GSK Vaccine being imported one keeps lying on airports for days to weeks. So the cold chain maintainance is a matter of suspicion. So in my opinioon SII MMR has some advantage over GSK one.

15 years ago

shilpa

No. as far as cold chain is maintained and technique is proper- both vaccines have equal efficacy

15 years ago

Muraliraj .N

Not superior

15 years ago

pediatriconcall

GSK-MMR is a trivalent live attenuated measles, mumps and rubella vaccine which contains the Schwarz measles, the RIT 4385 mumps {derived from the Jeryl Lynn mumps strain} and the Wistar RA 27-3 rubella strains. GSK-MMR is a highly immunogenic MMR vaccine with good tolerability. Serum Institute MMR has also shown good protection in the following study: Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128perCVI.00246-07. This vaccine contains Edmonston-Zagreb measles virus, Leningrad-Zagreb mumps virus and RA 27-2 rubella virus.

15 years ago

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