Fifteen-minute consultation: Chickenpox vaccine-should parents immunise their children privately?
epidemiology
evidence based medicine
general paediatrics
immunisation
virology
Journal
Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition
ISSN: 1743-0593
Titre abrégé: Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101220684
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2019
06 2019
Historique:
received:
08
01
2018
revised:
21
07
2018
accepted:
23
07
2018
pubmed:
6
8
2018
medline:
5
8
2020
entrez:
6
8
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Varicella zoster virus primarily causes chickenpox, usually a mild self-limiting illness of childhood. However, complications occur in 1% with 4200 annual deaths. Since the first vaccination was developed in the 1970s, many countries have introduced universal mass immunisation, but the UK currently only routinely immunises 'at-risk' populations. With increasing availability of private varicella vaccination, this article reviews the pros and cons of whether parents should be immunising their children with the chickenpox vaccine privately.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30077987
pii: archdischild-2018-314765
doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-314765
doi:
Substances chimiques
Chickenpox Vaccine
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
120-123Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.