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Official Journal of the Human Genome Organisation

Table 2 Pre- and post-vaccination antibody levels (EU/ml) among vaccinees and their antibody response, classified by gender and religion

From: Genetic determinants of immune-response to a polysaccharide vaccine for typhoid

 

Pre-vaccination

Post-vaccination

Antibody response

Gender

 Male

1.77 ± 0.67

61.34 ± 5.10

59.57 ± 5.00

 Female

1.38 ± 0.27

77.45 ± 7.03

76.06 ± 6.98

 P-value*

0.185

0.088

0.100

Religion

 Muslim

1.78 ± 0.53

77.48 ± 6.29

75.70 ± 6.23

 Hindu

1.21 ± 0.23

57.34 ± 5.51

56.14 ± 5.42

 P-value*

0.582

0.245

0.302

  1. * P-values were calculated after log10-transformation of the data to induce normality of the frequency distributions