US military service members vaccinated against smallpox in 2003 and 2004 experience a slightly higher risk of hospitalization postvaccination

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 4048-4056

  Jacobson, Isabel G ^a   Smith, Tyler C ^a   Smith, Besa ^a   Wells, Timothy S ^b   Reed, Robert J ^a   Ryan, Margaret A K ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitalization; Military medicine; Myocarditis; Smallpox vaccine

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SMALLPOX; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MYOCARDITIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47149104243     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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