State of the art: Could nursing mothers be vaccinated with attenuated live virus vaccine?

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 4921-4926

  Alain, Sophie ^a   Dommergues, Marie Aliette ^b   Jacquard, Anne Carole ^c   Caulin, Evelyne ^c   Launay, Odile ^d  

^a LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VERSAILLES   (France)

^c SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Infant; Vaccine attenuated; Viral vaccine

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBODY; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; GENTAMICIN; LIVE VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHICKENPOX; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; MEASLES; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MUMPS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; RUBELLA; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REACTION; VIRUS EXCRETION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE; YELLOW FEVER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 84862766002     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.047     Document Type: Review

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