Short communication: Haematological complications in otherwise healthy children hospitalized for varicella

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1534-1537

  Elena, Bozzola ^a   Anna, Quondamcarlo ^a   Andrzej, Krzysztofiak ^a   Elisabetta, Pandolfi ^a   Laura, Lancella ^a   Alberto, Tozzi ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Varicella; Varicella complication; Varicella vaccination

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BALANITIS; BLEPHARITIS; BONE ATROPHY; CELLULITIS; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONVULSION; DROWSINESS; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYSIPELAS; EYELID EDEMA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMPETIGO; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; OTITIS; PARESTHESIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEPSIS; SINUSITIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STOMATITIS; SYNCOPE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIA; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; ITALY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 79954620989     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.12.095     Document Type: Article

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