Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 597-599

  Doja, Asif ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SCN1A; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DRAVET SYNDROME; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOTE; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 57549106410     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/13.7.597     Document Type: Note

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