Published study on MMR vaccine and autistic children: No evidence of measles virus
A study published in May’s Journal of Medical Virology 78: 623-660 has found no evidence of the measles virus in autistic children who have received the MMR vaccine.
Dr. M. A. Afzal, from the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Hertfordshire, UK, and colleagues used several assays to test for measles genome sequences in leukocyte preparations obtained from 15 children with autism who had received the MMR vaccine as part of the routine immunization schedule in the UK.There was no evidence of measles genomic fragments in any of the children, by any of the methods used. The authors emphasize that the methods were “highly sensitive, specific, and robust” and were capable of detecting “measles virus RNA down to single figure copy numbers per reaction.” (No evidence of measles virus in MMR-vaccinated autistic children)
An abstract of the study can be read here and you can obtain 24-hour access to download a PDF file of the article here.
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Autism Vox » Publish, but be wary
Jun 28, 2006 at 6:44 am
[...] In Publish or be damned (June 2nd Guardian), Ben Goldacre writes about the journalistic rush-to-publish the results of a poster presentation about the MMR vaccine and autism, and about the study published in the May issue of the Journal of Medical Virology on there being no evidence of the measles virus in the autistic children studied. [...]
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