Vaccine effectiveness during a varicella outbreak among schoolchildren: Utah, 2002-2003

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1488-1493

  Haddad, Maryam B ^a,c   Hill, Mary B ^d   Pavia, Andrew T ^e   Green, Caroline E ^c   Jumaan, Aisha O ^a   De, Anindya K ^a   Rolfs, Robert T ^b,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Salt Lake Valley Health Department   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pediatrics; School age population; Vaccination; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECZEMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PARENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WILD TYPE; ADULT; AGE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TIME; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECZEMA; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UTAH; VACCINATION;

EID: 27444432760     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1826     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Meyer PA, Seward JF, Jumaan AO, Wharton M. Varicella mortality: trends before vaccine licensure in the United States, 1970-1994. J Infect Dis. 2000;182:383-390
2. Galil K, Brown C, Lin F, Seward J. Hospitalizations for varicella in the United States, 1988 to 1999. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002;21:931-935
3. Seward JF, Watson BM, Peterson CL, et al. Varicella disease after introduction of varicella vaccine in the United States, 1995-2000. JAMA. 2002;287:606-611
4. Galil K, Fair E, Mountcastle N, Britz P, Seward J. Younger age at vaccination may increase risk of varicella vaccine failure. J Infect Dis. 2002;186:102-105
5. Galil K, Lee B, Strine T, et al. Outbreak of varicella at a day-care center despite vaccination. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:1909-1915
6. Tugwell BD, Lee LE, Gillette H, Lorber EM, Hedberg K, Cieslak PR. Chickenpox outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population. Pediatrics. 2004;113:455-459
7. Lee BR, Feaver SL, Miller CA, Hedberg CW, Ehresmann KR. An elementary school outbreak of varicella attributed to vaccine failure: policy implications. J Infect Dis. 2004;190:477-483
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention of varicella: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 1996;45(RR-11):1-36
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention of varicella. Update recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 1999;48(RR-6):1-5
10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Varicella (chickenpox) clinical case definition. Available at: www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/casedef/ varicella_current.htm. Accessed April 5, 2004
11. Loparev VN, Argaw T, Krause PR, Takayama M, Schmid DS. Improved identification and differentiation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) wild-type strains and an attenuated varicella vaccine strain using a VZV open reading frame 62-based PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:3156-3160
12. Comstock GW. Evaluating vaccination effectiveness and vaccine efficacy by means of case-control studies. Epidemiol Rev. 1994;16:77-89
13. Orenstein WA, Bernier RH, Hinman AR. Assessing vaccine efficacy in the field. Epidemiol Rev. 1988;10:212-241
14. Moses LE, Emerson JD, Hosseini H. Analyzing data from ordered categories. N Engl J Med. 1984;311:442-448
15. Halloran ME, Cochi SL, Lieu TA, Wharton M, Fehrs L. Theoretical epidemiologic and morbidity effects of routine varicella vaccination of preschool children in the United States. Am J Epidemiol. 1994;140:81-104
16. Fine PEM, Zell ER. Outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations: implications for studies of vaccine performance. Am J Epidemiol. 1994;139:77-90
17. Izurieta HS, Strebel PM, Blake PA. Postlicensure effectiveness of varicella vaccine during an outbreak in a child care center. JAMA. 1997;278:1495-1499
18. Verstraeten T, Jumaan AO, Mullooly JP, et al. A retrospective cohort study of the association of varicella vaccine failure with asthma, steroid use, age at vaccination, and measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Pediatrics. 2003;112(2). Available at: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/112/2/e98
19. Engler RJM, Kenner J, Leung DYM. Smallpox vaccination: risk considerations for patients with atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2002;110:357-365
20. Vazquez M, LaRussa PS, Gershon AA, et al. Effectiveness over time of varicella vaccine. JAMA. 2004;291:851-855
21. Gershon AA. Varicella vaccine - are two doses better than one [editorial]? N Engl J Med. 2002;347:1962-1963