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Enhancing vaccine safety surveillance: a capture-recapture analysis of intussusception after rotavirus vaccinationT Verstraeten
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 154:1006-12. 2001..7 and 4.4, respectively) were comparable with those reported in the two studies. Linkage of VAERS to complimentary data sources may permit more timely postmarketing assessment of vaccine safety...
Analysis of adverse events of potential autoimmune aetiology in a large integrated safety database of AS04 adjuvanted vaccinesThomas Verstraeten
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Vaccine 26:6630-8. 2008....
Vaccine safety surveillance using large linked databases: opportunities, hazards and proposed guidelinesThomas Verstraeten
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Expert Rev Vaccines 2:21-9. 2003..We also offer our opinion on the future use of large linked databases for vaccine safety surveillance purposes...
A retrospective cohort study of the association of varicella vaccine failure with asthma, steroid use, age at vaccination, and measles-mumps-rubella vaccinationThomas Verstraeten
Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 112:e98-103. 2003..We assessed the association of varicella breakthrough with asthma, steroids, age at varicella vaccination, and timing of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination...
Immunity to tetanus is protective against the development of multiple sclerosisT Verstraeten
Epidemic Intelligence Service EIS Program, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Altanta, GA, USA
Med Hypotheses 65:966-9. 2005..Laboratory evidence could be sought by testing the effect of tetanus toxoid on experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, the experimental animal model of MS...
Safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines: a two-phased study of computerized health maintenance organization databasesThomas Verstraeten
Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 112:1039-48. 2003..Conflicting results were found at different HMOs for certain outcomes. For resolving the conflicting findings, studies with uniform neurodevelopmental assessments of children with a range of cumulative thimerosal exposures are needed...
Vaccinations and risk of central nervous system demyelinating diseases in adultsFrank Destefano
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Neurol 60:504-9. 2003..Several case reports of the onset or exacerbation of multiple sclerosis or other demyelinating conditions shortly after vaccination have suggested that vaccines may increase the risk of demyelinating diseases...
Burden of rotavirus disease in European Union countriesMontse Soriano-Gabarro
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:S7-S11. 2006..With the introduction of new rotavirus vaccines in sight, rotavirus gastroenteritis may be regarded as the single most frequent vaccine-preventable disease among children in the EU...
Thimerosal, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and GlaxoSmithKlineThomas Verstraeten
Pediatrics 113:932. 2004
Rotavirus serotype G9 is associated with more-severe disease in Latin AmericaA C Linhares
Instituto Evandro Chagas, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministerio da Saude, Belem, Brazil
Clin Infect Dis 43:312-4. 2006..Thus, demonstration of efficacy against G9 will be an important asset of any rotavirus vaccine to be introduced into a Latin American country or any country where G9 has been shown to be prevalent...
The epidemiology of paediatric intussusception in Singapore: 1997 to 2004Irving Charles Boudville
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Singapore
Ann Acad Med Singapore 35:674-9. 2006..Post-marketing surveillance is also important, and requires the availability of local baseline epidemiology data on IS...
Four and one-half-year follow-up of the effectiveness of diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis/Haemophilus influenzae type b and diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis-inactivated poliovirus/H. influenzae type b combination vaccines in GeHelen Kalies
Institute for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig Maxilimilians University, Heiglhofstrasse 63, 81377 Munich, Germany
Pediatr Infect Dis J 23:944-50. 2004..A study in Germany based on approximately 2 years of follow-up, estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of DTaP/Hib and DTaP-inactivated poliovirus/Hib combination vaccines against invasive Hib disease to be high...
