Vaccine effectiveness evaluation during a varicella outbreak among children of primary schools and day-care centers in a region which adopted UMV

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 184-188

  Tafuri, Silvio ^a   Martinelli, Domenico ^b   Prato, Rosa ^b   Germinario, Cinzia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breakthrough; Interval between doses; Universal mass vaccination; Varicella; Varicella vaccine

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PRIORIX TETRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DAY CARE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECZEMA; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; SCHOOL CHILD; VACCINE FAILURE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BREAKTHROUGH; INTERVAL BETWEEN DOSES; UNIVERSAL MASS VACCINATION; VARICELLA; VARICELLA VACCINE;

CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; MASS VACCINATION; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84874728333     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.22373     Document Type: Article

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