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| Aisha O JumaanSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Incidence of herpes zoster, before and after varicella-vaccination-associated decreases in the incidence of varicella, 1992-2002Aisha O Jumaan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30345, USA
J Infect Dis 191:2002-7. 2005..We assessed the impact that varicella vaccination has on the incidence of varicella and of HZ...
Changing varicella epidemiology in active surveillance sites--United States, 1995-2005Dalya Guris
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Infect Dis 197:S71-5. 2008..Continued surveillance will be important to monitor the impact that the 2-dose vaccine policy in children has on varicella epidemiology...- Epidemiology of varicella hospitalizations in the United States, 1995-2005Meredith A Reynolds
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 197:S120-6. 2008..The fact that 4 vaccinated children required hospitalization for varicella-related complications demonstrates that 1 dose of varicella vaccine does not prevent serious disease in all cases, even among previously healthy children... - Transmission of atypical varicella-zoster virus infections involving palm and sole manifestations in an area with monkeypox endemicityAdam MacNeil
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 48:e6-8. 2009..Genotyping results confirmed the VZV strain European E2, a genotype not previously reported in Africa. VZV with palm and sole involvement should be considered when differentiating a monkeypox diagnosis... - Importance of catch-up vaccination: experience from a varicella outbreak, Maine, 2002-2003Mona Marin
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 115:900-5. 2005..We investigated this outbreak to examine reasons for its occurrence, including vaccine failure... - Contagiousness of varicella in vaccinated cases: a household contact studyJane F Seward
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 292:704-8. 2004..Limited data are available on the contagiousness of vaccinated varicella cases... - One dose of varicella vaccine does not prevent school outbreaks: is it time for a second dose?Adriana S Lopez
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 117:e1070-7. 2006.... 
Impact of varicella vaccine on varicella-zoster virus dynamicsD Scott Schmid
Herpesvirus Team and National VZV Laboratory, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Division of Viral Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 23:202-17. 2010..Since disease symptoms often resolve in outbreak settings before suitable test specimens can be obtained, the need to develop new diagnostic approaches that rely on alternative patient samples is also discussed...- Chickenpox or smallpox: the use of the febrile prodrome as a distinguishing characteristicZack S Moore
Viral Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1810-7. 2004..The febrile prodrome is a clinical feature used to differentiate these conditions. However, the prevalence of prodromal manifestations in chickenpox has not been well established... - Vaccine effectiveness during a varicella outbreak among schoolchildren: Utah, 2002-2003Maryam B Haddad
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 115:1488-93. 2005.... - Increasing evidence of immunity to varicella among children in Massachusetts, 1999-2003Adriana S Lopez
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:232-6. 2006..This study examines the effect of early implementation of daycare and school-entry requirements for varicella vaccination on recorded varicella immunity of preschool and school-aged children in Massachusetts... - Uptake of varicella vaccination among young children in the United States: a success story in eliminating racial and ethnic disparitiesElizabeth T Luman
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 117:999-1008. 2006..To examine uptake of varicella vaccine, a live attenuated vaccine licensed in 1995 and recommended in 1996 for routine vaccination of US children 12 to 18 months of age... - Impact of varicella vaccination on health care utilizationFangjun Zhou
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 294:797-802. 2005..However, national surveillance data are incomplete, and comprehensive data regarding outpatient as well as hospital utilization have not been reported... - Monkeypox or varicella? Lessons from a rash outbreak investigation in the Republic of the CongoAdam MacNeil
Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:503-7. 2009..Improvements in rash illness surveillance and infection control, through training of health workers and timely acquisition of diagnostic specimens, are being undertaken... - Decline in mortality due to varicella after implementation of varicella vaccination in the United StatesHuong Q Nguyen
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
N Engl J Med 352:450-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The program of universal childhood vaccination against varicella in the United States has resulted in a sharp decline in the rate of death due to varicella... - 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... - Herpes zoster vaccination among adults aged 60 years or older in the United States, 2007: uptake of the first new vaccine to target seniorsPeng Jun Lu
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:882-7. 2009..We examined HZ vaccination coverage among persons aged > or =60 years in the U.S. in 2007, and evaluated factors affecting the uptake of HZ vaccine in this population... - Varicella disease after introduction of varicella vaccine in the United States, 1995-2000Jane F Seward
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, Mailstop E 62, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 287:606-11. 2002..Before licensure of varicella vaccine in 1995, varicella was a universal childhood disease in the United States, causing 4 million cases, 11,000 hospitalizations, and 100 deaths every year... - High rate of varicella complications among Mexican-born adults in AlabamaM Carolina Danovaro-Holliday
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1633-9. 2004.... - Chickenpox outbreak in a highly vaccinated school populationAisha O Jumaan
Pediatrics 114:1130; author reply 1131. 2004 - Second varicella infections: are they more common than previously thought?Susan Hall
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Pediatrics 109:1068-73. 2002..To describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of varicella reinfections reported to a surveillance project... - The incidence of varicella and herpes zoster in Massachusetts as measured by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) during a period of increasing varicella vaccine coverage, 1998-2003W Katherine Yih
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, USA
BMC Public Health 5:68. 2005..While varicella incidence would be expected to decrease, mathematical models predict an initial increase in herpes zoster incidence if re-exposure to varicella protects against reactivation of the varicella zoster virus...