| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines/ Kathleen R. Stratton, Cynthia J. Howe, and Richard B. Johnston, Jr., editors. |
| Reminder of title: |
evidence bearing on causality / |
| other author: |
Howe, Cynthia J. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :National Academy Press, : 1994., |
| Description: |
xiii, 464 p. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
"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. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
(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. |
| Subject: |
Vaccination of children - Complications. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2477An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
058515869X (electronic bk.) |