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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Mol Med. 2015 Nov 18;21(12):789–801. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2015.10.005

Table 1.

Measles-specific antibodies, variability and persistence after two doses of MMR vaccine administration

Study Subjects Number Years post second vaccination (median., range) Antibody assay Antibody titer (GMT, range if available, 95% CI) Potentially susceptible (%) Reference
1. Gans HA et al.; 2001 73 (First dose: 6 months)
61 (First dose: 9 months)
NA
NA
PRN 128 mIU/mL (74–215)
426 mIU/mL (241–657)
40%
11% % (≤120 mIU/mL)
[94]
2. Gans HA et al.; 2004 32 (First dose: 6 months)
23 (First dose: 9 months)
0.5
0.5
PRN 702 mIU/mL (344–1457)
1546 mIU/mL (686–3484)
14%
10% (≤120 mIU/mL)
[95]
3. LeBaron CW et al.; 2007 312 Kindergarten
309 Middle school
5.1 (4.2–6.1)
11.2 (10.1–12.5)
PRN 641 mIU/mL (NA)
737 mIU/mL (NA)
4.7% (≤120 mIU/mL) [96]
4. Davidkin I et al.; 2008 85 younger group
6 Older group
20 EIA 760 mIU/mL (75; 8400)
1113 mIU/mL (220; 5900)
12% (EIA titer ≤200 mIU/mL) [97]
5. Haralambieva IH et al.; 2011 763 school children 7.4 (5.6; 9.2). PRMN 832 mIU/mL (776; 891) 8.9% (<PRMN titer of 120) [12]
6. Kakoulidou M et al.; 2013 33 >7 EIA 2098 mIU/mL (180; 8783) NA [98]
1097 Rochester cohort 6.6 (5.0, 8.6) 896 mIU/mL (423; 1744)* 2.6%
7. Poland GA et al.; 2015 970 San Diego cohort 1.2 (0.7, 2.8) PRMN 848 mIU/mL (392; 1635)* 3.7% Unpublished data
1038 US cohort 1.8 (1.3, 2.9) 762 mIU/mL (345; 1505)* 4.2%(<PRMN titer of 120)
*

Median (25% and 75% IQR)