Vaccines and febrile seizures: Quantifying the risk

Pediatrics

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sawyer, Mark H ^a   Simon, Geoff ^b   Byington, Carrie ^c  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG SAFETY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PEDIATRICIAN; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TETANUS; INFANT; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

HUMANS; INFANT; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; VACCINES;

EID: 84976872305     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0976     Document Type: Note

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