PEDIATRICS Vol. 63 No. 2 February 1979, pp. 219-221
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Vaccination of Children With Human Cell Culture Rabies Vaccine

Stanley A. Plotkin M.D.1 and Tadeusz Wiktor D.V.M.1

1 University of Pennsylvania, the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, and the Division of Infections Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

Three children exposed to the bites of proved or probably rabid animals were immunized with human rabies immune globulin and human diploid cell culture vaccine. There were no significant clinical reactions, and all three developed high levels of rabies antibody. The patients have remained well from four to 18 months.

Submitted on January 17, 1978
Accepted on July 14, 1978