TABLE 5.
Numbers of children with local reactions at the injection site within 7 days of receiving MCC/Hib vaccine and PCV7 with MMR vaccine according to whether given sequentially 1 month apart (group A) or together (group B)
| Local Reaction | No. (%) positive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCC/Hib vaccine |
PCV7 |
MMR vaccine |
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| Group A (n = 108) | Group B (n = 68) | Group A (n = 104) | Group B (n = 68) | Group A (n = 104) | Group B (n = 68) | |
| Any erythema | 24 (22.2) | 18 (26.5) | 43 (41.3) | 26 (38.2) | 28 (26.9) | 19 (27.9) |
| Any swelling | 5 (4.6) | 7 (10.3) | 23 (22.1) | 17 (25.0) | 14 (13.5) | 6 (8.8) |
| Erythema of >3 cm | 2 (1.9) | 0 | 4 (3.8) | 3 (4.4) | 0 | 0 |
| Swelling of >3 cm | 0 | 0 | 3 (2.9) | 1 (1.5) | 0 | 0 |
| Tenderness | 8 (7.4) | 11 (16.2) | 17 (16.3) | 13 (19.1) | 18 (17.3) | 8 (11.8) |