Is vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella associated with reduced rates of antibiotic treatments among children below the age of 2  years? Nationwide register-based study from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden

CONCLUSIONS: Across the Nordic countries, receipt of MMR vaccine after DTaP3 was associated with an 11% lower rate of antibiotic treatments. The negative control analysis suggests that the findings are affected by residual confounding. Findings suggest that potential non-specific effects of MMR vaccine are of limited clinical and public health importance for the milder infections treated out-of-hospital in the Nordic setting.PMID:38508926 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.03.026

Source: Vaccine - March 20, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Lise Gehrt H élène Englund Ida Laake Heta Nieminen S ören Möller Berit Feiring Mika Lahdenkari Lill Trogstad Christine Stabell Benn Signe S ørup Source Type: research