Risks associated with smallpox vaccination in pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1439-1451

  Badell, Martina L ^a   Meaney Delman, Dana ^a   Tuuli, Methodius G ^a   Rasmussen, Sonja A ^a   Petersen, Brett W ^a   Sheffield, Jeanne S ^a   Beigi, Richard H ^a   Damon, Inger K ^a   Jamieson, Denise J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

CONGENITAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FETAL VACCINIA; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS RISK; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL RISK; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VACCINATION; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMALLPOX VACCINE; STILLBIRTH; VACCINIA;

EID: 84929923957     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000857     Document Type: Review

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