Disease-A-Month
Volume 53, Issue 9 , Pages 422-429 , September 2007

Introduction

References 

  1. Fisch , Stanley I. Commentary on “Why do parents oppose vaccination?”. AAP Grand Rounds. 2005;46
  2. Kennedy RF. Deadly immunity. Available at: http://Salon.com. Accessed June 16, 2005.
  3. Kennedy RF. Thimerosal, children’s vaccines and autism. Letters to the editor, The Wall Street Journal. 2005;July 8:A11
  4. Haggerty RJ. DTP (update memo to AAP Fellows). Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 1985;Document Number 15-Feb-85 1750 0030 06939
  5. Editor’s Note (Diabetes and Hib vaccination). AAP Grand Rounds. 1999;2(1):
  6. Mendelsohn RS. How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. In: Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books; 1984;p. 216
  7. UK’s General Medical Council investigating Andrew Wakefield. Infect Dis Children. 2006;19(7):50
  8. Blaylock RJ. Ask Dr. Blaylock. NewsMax. 2006;98;May
  9. Breslin MM. Painful questions of blame. Chicago Tribune. 2006;June 25, Sec 2:1
  10. Hutchins SS, Escolan J, Markowitz LE, et al. Measles outbreak among undervaccinated preschool-aged children: opportunities missed by health care providers to administer measles vaccine. Pediatrics. 1989;83:369–374
  11. American Journal of Public Health 1993 June, abstracted in “Opportunities to vaccinate measles-prone children.”. American Academy of Pediatrics News. 1993;August
  12. Williams WW, Hickson MA, Kane MA, et al. Immunization policies and vaccine coverage among adults; the risk for missed opportunities. Ann Int Med. 1988;108:616–625
  13. McConnochie KM, Roghmann KJ. Immunization opportunities missed among urban poor children. Pediatrics. 1992;89(6):1019–1026
  14. Szilazyi PG, Rodewald LE, Humiston SG, et al. Missed opportunities for childhood vaccinations in office practices and the effect on vaccination status. Pediatrics. 1993;9(1):1–7
  15. Daley MF, Beaty BL, Barrow J, et al. Missed opportunities for influenza vaccination in children with chronic medical conditions. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159:986–991
  16. Cohen N, Lauderdale DS, Shete PB, et al. Physician knowledge of catch-up regimens and contraindications for childhood immunizations. Pediatrics. 2003;111(5):925–932
  17. Serwint JR. Pediatrician’s attitudes toward influenza vaccine. Ambulatory Pediatrics Association Meeting. 1991;
  18. Bechtel B. NFID influenza drive to focus on HCWs. Infect Dis Children. 2004;22;April
  19. Hoofnagle JH. Toward universal vaccination against hepatitis B virus. N Engl J Med. 1989;321(19):1333–1334
  20. Zell PM. Franklin on Franklin. In: Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky; 2000;p. 133–134
  21. Centers for Disease Control. Update: poliomyelitis outbreak: Netherlands, 1992. MMWR. 1992;41:917–919
  22. Lederle-Praxis Biologics. Vaccine Bulletin, issue #64, 1993 April: page 1.
  23. Centers for Disease Control. Poliomyelitis: Israel. MMWR. 1988;37(40):624–625
  24. Polio cases surge to 467 so far in ‘06. Chicago Tribune. 2006;June 17
  25. Samba E, Nkrumah F, Leke R. Getting polio eradication back on track in Nigeria. N Engl J Med. 2004;350:645–646
  26. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Resurgence of wild poliovirus type 1 transmission and consequences of importation: 21 countries, 2002-2005. MMWR. 2006;55(6):145–150
  27. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreak of polio in adults: Namibia. MMWR. 2006;55(44):1198–1201
  28. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Imported vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis: United States, 2005. MMWR. 2006;55(4):97–99
  29. Gellert GA. International health assistance for eurasia. N Engl J Med. 1992;326(15):1021–1024
  30. Centers for Disease Control. Diphtheria epidemic: New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, 1990-1994. MMWR. 1995;44(10):178–181
  31. Source of infection in boy who died of diphtheria unknown. Pediatric News. 1990;24(3):March
  32. Centers for Disease Control. Neonatal tetanus: Montana, 1998. MMWR. 1998;47(43):928–930
  33. Cherry JD, Brunell PA, Golden GS, et al. Report of the task force on pertussis and pertussis immunization: 1988. Pediatrics. 1988;81(6, part 2):956
  34. Sutter RW, Cochi SL. Pertussis hospitalizations and mortality in the United States, 1985-1988. JAMA. 1992;267(3):386–391
  35. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Summary of notifiable diseases: United States, 2002. MMWR. 2004;51(53):1–84
  36. Centers for Disease Control. Measles vaccine levels among selected groups of preschool-aged children: United States. MMWR. 1991;40(2):36–39
  37. Schlenker TL, Bain C, Barighman AL, et al. Measles herd immunity. JAMA. 1992;267(6):823–826
  38. Centers for Disease Control. Measles: United States, 1992. MMWR. 1993;42(19):378–380
  39. Katz SL. The politics of measles. Rep Pediatr Infect Dis. 1991;1(9):1–2
  40. Noble KK, Miyasaka K. Letter to the Editor. N Engl J Med. 2003;348(10):952–953
  41. McBrien J, Murphy J, Gill D, et al. Measles outbreak in Dublin, 2000. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2003;22(7):580–584
  42. Parker AA, Staggs W, Dayan GH, et al. Implications of a 2005 measles outbreak in Indiana for sustained elimination of measles in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2006;355(5):447–455
  43. Neal P, DeNeut R. As I Am: An Autobiography. In: New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 1988;p. 230–233
  44. Manning A. To vaccinate or not to vaccinate. USA Today. 2000;July 17:5D
  45. Walther S. A mother’s view: my daughter’s vaccine story. Pediatr Ann. 2001;30(7):424–426

PII: S0011-5029(07)00092-2

doi: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2007.09.002

Disease-A-Month
Volume 53, Issue 9 , Pages 422-429 , September 2007