Smallpox vaccination: What the pediatrician needs to know

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 178-181

  Waecker Jr , Norman J ^a   Hale, Braden R ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISONE; SMALLPOX VACCINE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIA ANTIBODY;

AGE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLINDNESS; CELLULITIS; CHILD CARE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECZEMA; EDEMA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INJECTION SITE; INOCULATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGITIS; PEDIATRICIAN; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VIRUS; VACCINATION REACTION; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 0037340012     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-20030301-08     Document Type: Review

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