Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine: Efficacy for Children With Leukemia in Remission

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 1984, Pages 355-362

  Gershon, Anne A ^a   Steinberg, Sharon Projansky ^a   Gelb, Lawrence ^b   Galasso, George ^c   Borkowsky, William ^a   LaRussa, Philip ^a   Ferrara, Angelo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKEMIA; PREVENTION; RASH; THERAPY; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; MALE; VACCINATION; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84944364667     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1984.03350030023016     Document Type: Article

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