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VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS RELATED DEATHS AND HOSPITALIZATIONS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF UNIVERSAL VACCINATION WITH THE TETRAVIRAL VACCINE
Mota, Alessandra de Martino et al. | Date Issued: 2016
Author
Mota, Alessandra de Martino
Costa, Filipe Anibal Carvalho
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Epidemiollgia e Sistemática Molecualar. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escritório Regional Fiocruz Piáuí. Teresina, PI, Brasil.
Abstract
To characterize varicella zoster virus-related deaths and hospitalizations in Brazil before universal vaccination with the tetravalent (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella) vaccine, attempting to collect baseline data on varicella morbidity and mortality in order to evaluate the impact of the varicella vaccination program.
Keywords in Portuguese
vírus de catapora zoster
Catapora
Vacina Tetraviral
Mortes
Hispitalizações
 
Keywords
Varicella-zoster virus
Varicella
Tetraviral vaccine
Deaths
Hospitalizations
 
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria
Citation
MOTA, Alessandra de Martino; COSTA, Filipe Anibal Carvalho. Varicella zoster virus related deaths and hospitalizations before the introduction of universal vaccination with the tetraviral vaccine. Jornal de Pediatria, v.92, n.4, p.361-366, 2016.
DOI
10.1016/j.jped.2015.10.003
ISSN
2255-5536