Tdap vaccination during pregnancy and microcephaly and other structural birth defects in offspring

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 316, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 1823-1825

  DeSilva, Malini ^a   Vazquez Benitez, Gabriela ^a   Nordin, James D ^a   Lipkind, Heather S ^b   Romitti, Paul A ^c   DeStefano, Frank ^d   Kharbanda, Elyse O ^a  

^a HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ANOPHTHALMIA; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CATARACT; CHILD; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DRUG SAFETY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; ENCEPHALOMYELOCELE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; INTESTINE ATRESIA; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; LETTER; LIMB DEFECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MICROTIA; OMPHALOCELE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRUM AGENESIS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; PERTUSSIS; TETANUS;

DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; TETANUS; VACCINATION; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 84997254301     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.14432     Document Type: Letter

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