Childhood intussusception: a literature review

Childhood intussusception: a literature review

Postlicensure data has identified a causal link between rotavirus vaccines and intussusception in some settings. As rotavirus vaccines are introduced globally, monitoring intussusception will be crucial for ensuring safety of the vaccine programs. To obtain updated information on background rates an...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2013-07, Vol.8 (7), p.e68482-e68482
Hauptverfasser: Jiang, James, Jiang, Baoming, Parashar, Umesh, Nguyen, Trang, Bines, Julie, Patel, Manish M
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Age
Child
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Childrens health
Disease control
Disease prevention
Epidemiological Monitoring
Epidemiology
Fatalities
Heterogeneity
Hospitals
Humans
Immunization
Incidence
Infants
Internationality
Intussusception
Intussusception - diagnosis
Intussusception - epidemiology
Intussusception - therapy
Literature reviews
Medicine
Monitoring
Pediatrics
Respiratory diseases
Rotavirus
Safety
Seasonal variations
Studies
Surgery
Surveillance
Trends
Vaccines
Viruses
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Zusammenfassung:Postlicensure data has identified a causal link between rotavirus vaccines and intussusception in some settings. As rotavirus vaccines are introduced globally, monitoring intussusception will be crucial for ensuring safety of the vaccine programs. To obtain updated information on background rates and clinical management of intussusception, we reviewed studies of intussusception in children
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0068482