• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Does Food Allergy Require Any Change in Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination?: Correspondence
Source: Indian Journal of Pediatrics - December 6, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

New immunodeficiency syndromes that help us understand the IFN-mediated antiviral immune response
Purpose of review Studying primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) provides insights into human antiviral immunity in the natural infectious environment. This review describes new PIDs with genetic defects that impair innate antiviral responses. Recent findings New genetic defects in the interferon (IFN) signaling pathway include IFNAR1 deficiency, which causes uncontrolled infections with measles-mumps-rubella or yellow fever vaccines, and possibly also cytomegalovirus (CMV); and IRF9 deficiency, which results in influenza virus susceptibility. Genetic defects in several pattern recognition receptors include MDA5 deficienc...
Source: Current Opinion in Pediatrics - November 7, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Tags: ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND RELATED DISORDERS: Edited by Jordan S. Orange Source Type: research

Does Food Allergy Require Any Change in Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination?
ConclusionsAny serious allergic reaction was not observed in this study. Food allergy does not necessitate modification of routine vaccination. Anaphylaxis may develop in any vaccinated child regardless of whether he/she has food allergy or not. Therefore, vaccines should be administered in a healthcare facility that can treat anaphylaxis.
Source: Indian Journal of Pediatrics - September 21, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination in Children with Food Allergy
Source: Indian Journal of Pediatrics - August 6, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Determinants of low measles vaccination coverage in children living in an endemic area
Conclusion: We reported inadequate measles immunization rate in Southern Italy, with lowest rates in children ≤ 2 years or with underlying conditions. Only a minority had true contraindications to vaccine uptake. Implementation strategies addressed to health-care professionals and families should focus on the reported determinants to increase measles vaccination coverage.What is Known:• Measles is a viral, highly communicable disease, preventable by vaccine.• Measles elimination in Europe failed as demonstrated by outbreaks in several countries, due to low immunization rates.What is New:• Inadequate measles immu...
Source: European Journal of Pediatrics - November 14, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Recurrent Immune Thrombocytopenia After Influenza Vaccination: A Case Report
We report a child with 3 occurrences of ITP, each within 1 week of receiving the influenza trivalent inactivated vaccine. He recovered fully in-between the episodes, and no further episodes have occurred since discontinuation of seasonal influenza vaccination. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first showing, with high probability, the influenza vaccine as a cause for ITP in a pediatric patient.
Source: PEDIATRICS - November 30, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Hamiel, U., Kventsel, I., Youngster, I. Tags: Infectious Disease, Influenza, Allergy/Immunology, Immunologic Disorders Case Report Source Type: research

Measles reported near Boston
Measles under a microscope Two cases of measles, the highly contagious virus, have been confirmed just outside of Boston, according Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Later reports traced the disease to a Framingham Trader Joe’s shopping market. And while most people in the United States have received vaccines against the disease, or got it and recovered as children making them immune, health officials are advising anyone displaying any symptoms to call a doctor. (It’s not recommended you go to a health care facility, out of fear you may infect others who have not been vaccinated.) Many adults associate me...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - February 25, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: All posts infecious disease measles Parenting Source Type: news

Measles numbers multiply, myths linger
Measles. Many adults associate it with mild illness and relatively harmless red spots. Not quite, says Ronald Samuels, MD, MPH, associate medical director of Boston Children’s Primary Care Center. “Measles is different from chicken pox. A mild case of measles doesn’t exist.” That message takes on a new urgency in light of data released by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), which tallied 159 reported cases of measles from January 1-August 24 of this year. The U.S. declared measles eliminated with no cases of continuous transmission for 12 months or longer in 2000. Since then, the number of annual...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 9, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: All posts Diseases & conditions Vaccines measles MMR vaccination Source Type: news

Measles: the legacy of low vaccine coverage
Measles is among the most infectious diseases of humans. Prior to the introduction of vaccination, virtually every child in the UK caught measles during two-yearly epidemics that each involved up to 700 000 reported cases. The illness presents with fever, coryza, cough and conjunctivitis before progressing to the classic rash after 2–4 days.1 Complications are more common in the very young and in adults and include otitis media, pneumonia, diarrhoea, keratitis and encephalitis. Although measles still kills around 150 000 children per year worldwide, in industrialised countries, case-fatality ratios are...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - September 12, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ramsay, M. E. Tags: Liver disease, Oncology, Diarrhoea, Eye Diseases, Editor's choice, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, Hepatitis and other GI infections, Otitis, Pneumonia (infectious disease), TB and other respiratory infections, Vaccination / im Source Type: research

Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccination of an egg-allergic child sensitized to gelatin.
We report on the case of a 12-year-old child with severe immediate-type egg allergy. Immediate-reading intradermal skin tests performed prior to the MMR vaccine were positive. Subsequent allergological work-up revealed a gelatin sensitization, and the child tolerated injections of the vaccine given according to a tolerance induction protocol. Gelatin is used as a stabilizer in numerous vaccines and may be responsible for immediate-type hypersentivity reactions to gelatin-containing vaccines. In case of reaction induced by the MMR vaccine, one needs to explore a potential gelatin sensitization/allergy. The MMR vaccine shoul...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - July 11, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Dumortier B, Nosbaum A, Ponvert C, Nicolas JF, Bérard F Tags: Arch Pediatr Source Type: research