Elective termination of pregnancy after vaccination reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS): 1990-2006

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2428-2432

  Chang, Soju ^a   Ball, Robert ^a   Braun, M Miles ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Elective termination of pregnancy; Vaccine; VAERS

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS TOXOID; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL VARICELLA SYNDROME; DATA BASE; DIPHTHERIA; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGISTER; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RUBELLA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINE ADVERSE EVENT REPORTING SYSTEM; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 43049133221     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.02.052     Document Type: Article

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