Chickenpox Vaccine

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A real-time PCR assay to identify and discriminate among wild-type and vaccine strains of varicella-zoster virus and herpes simplex virus in clinical specimens, and comparison with the clinical diagnoses. 
  • A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults. 
  • Comparison of the safety and immunogenicity of a refrigerator-stable versus a frozen formulation of ProQuad (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella virus vaccine live). 
  • Decreasing rates of hospitalization for varicella among young adults. 
  • Large injection site reactions after a second dose of varicella vaccine. 
  • Modified varicella-like syndrome in children previously vaccinated with live attenuated measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine. 
  • Modified varicella-like syndrome. 
  • Over five-year follow-up of Oka/Merck varicella vaccine recipients in 465 infants and adolescents. 
  • Partial uptake of varicella vaccine and the epidemiological effect on varicella disease in 11 day-care centers in North Carolina. 
  • Perinatal cytomegalovirus and varicella zoster virus infections: epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. 
  • Perspective on live varicella vaccine. 
  • Postlicensure study of varicella vaccine effectiveness in a day-care setting. 
  • Prevention strategies: herpes zoster, post-herpetic neuralgia and immunogenicity. 
  • Recombinant varicella vaccines induce neutralizing antibodies and cellular immune responses to SIV and reduce viral loads in immunized rhesus macaques. 
  • Safety and cellular and humoral immune responses of a booster dose of varicella vaccine 6 years after primary immunization. 
  • Safety and immunogenicity of a combination measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine (ProQuad). 
  • Safety and immunogenicity of one vs. two injections of Oka/Merck varicella vaccine in healthy children. 
  • Safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of VAQTA given concomitantly versus nonconcomitantly with other pediatric vaccines in healthy 12-month-old children. 
  • The incidence of zoster after immunization with live attenuated varicella vaccine. A study in children with leukemia. Varicella Vaccine Collaborative Study Group. 
  • Varicella during pregnancy. Maternal and fetal effects. 
  • Varicella in a susceptible pregnant woman. 
  • Varicella susceptibility and vaccine use among young adults enlisting in the United States Navy. 
  • Varicella vaccination in a primary care pediatric practice. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Primary Care Pediatrics