Zoster vaccination is associated with a reduction of zoster in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2095-2098

  Langan, Sinéad M ^a   Thomas, Sara L ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Margolis, David J ^b   Nitsch, Dorothea ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Herpes zoster vaccine; Vaccine effectiveness

Indexed keywords

VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; IMMUNOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK; VIROLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK; VACCINATION;

EID: 84970986825     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfv432     Document Type: Article

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