Varicella zoster virus: Vaccination and implications in children with renal failure

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-298

  Fadrowski, Jeffrey J ^a   Furth, Susan L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickenpox; Herpes; Immunization; Immunocompromised; Kidney; Pediatric; Vaccine; Varicella; Zoster

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISONE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

CHICKENPOX; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEALTH CARE COST; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; INJECTION PAIN; INJECTION SITE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; SEROCONVERSION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; VACCINATION;

EID: 2942722345     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.3.3.291     Document Type: Review

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