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Studies from University Hospital, Emergency Department yield new data on chickenpox vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 7th, 2007

Researchers detail in "Epidemiology of hospital admissions for paediatric varicella infections: a one-year prospective survey in the pre-vaccine era," new data in chickenpox. In this recently published article, scientists in Lille, France conducted a study "To evaluate the epidemiology of hospital admissions for varicella in children, a 1-year prospective multicentre study was done in Northern France in the pre-varicella vaccine era. The 405 children aged <16 years seen at local hospitals for varicella or herpes zoster were included."

"Among them, 143 who had varicella and resided in the district were admitted. Admission incidence rates were 28/100000 children aged...

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