| Description |
xiii, 464 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"Vaccine Safety Committee, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine." |
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"The project was supported by funds coordinated through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (contract no. NO-AI-15130)"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-450) and index. |
| Contents |
Executive summary -- Causality and evidence -- Causality -- Sources of evidence for causality -- Summarizing the evidence for causality -- Neurologic disorders -- Demyelinating disease -- Non-demyelinating disease -- Immunologic reactions -- Anaphylaxis -- Interaction of antibody with normal tissue antigens -- Arthus reaction -- Delayed-type hypersensitivity -- Effect of vaccines on the immune system -- Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids -- Background and history -- Biologic events following immunization -- Encephalopathy -- Residual seizure disorder -- Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Neuropathy -- Arthritis -- Erythema multiforme -- Anaphylaxis -- Death -- Measles and mumps vaccines -- Background and history -- Biologic events following immunization -- Encephalopathy and encephalitis -- Aseptic meningitis -- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis -- Residual seizure disorder -- Sensorineural deafness -- Optic neuritis -- Transverse myelitis -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus -- Sterility due to orchitis. |
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(cont) Thrombocytopenia -- Anaphylaxis -- Death -- Polio vaccines -- Background and history -- Biologic events following immunization -- Poliomyelitis -- Transverse myelitis -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Anaphylaxis and thrombocytopenia -- Death -- Hepatitis B vaccines -- Background and history -- Biologic events following immunization -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Other demyelinating diseases -- Arthritis -- Anaphylaxis -- Death -- Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccines -- Background and history -- Biologic events following immunization -- Transverse myelitis -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Thrombocytopenia -- Early susceptibility to H. influenzae type b -- Anaphylaxis -- Death -- Examples -- Reports of death identified from VAERS -- Vaccine-specific data concerning death after immunization -- Need for research and surveillance -- Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids -- Measles and mumps vaccines -- Polio vaccines -- Hepatitis B vaccines -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Death -- Simultaneous administration of more than one vaccine -- Risk-modifying factors -- General surveillance and epidemiologic studies. |
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Executive summary from Adverse effects of pertussis and rubella vaccines -- Strategies for gathering information. |
| Notes |
Also available online (World Wide Web). |
| Sujet |
Vaccination of children -- Complications.
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Vaccines -- Health aspects.
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Vaccines -- Toxicology.
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Immunization -- in infancy & childhood.
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Vaccines -- adverse effects.
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| Autre Auteur |
Stratton, Kathleen R.
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Howe, Cynthia J.
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Johnston, Richard B., 1935-
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| ISBN |
0309048958 |
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