ACMT position statement: The Iom report on thimerosal and autism
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BRIEF REPORT Association Between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine and Autism
HIGH DOSES OF MERCURIC COMpounds are nephrotoxic and neurotoxic. Thimerosal, an organic compound that contains ethylmercury, has been widely used since the 1930s as a preservative in certain vaccines. In the 1990s, an increasing number of different vaccines containing thimerosal were introduced in immunization schedules around the world, and thus the average cumulative exposure to thimerosal in...
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CONTEXT Mercuric compounds are nephrotoxic and neurotoxic at high doses. Thimerosal, a preservative used widely in vaccine formulations, contains ethylmercury. Thus it has been suggested that childhood vaccination with thimerosal-containing vaccine could be causally related to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. OBJECTIVE To determine whether vaccination with a thimerosal-containing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Toxicology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1556-9039,1937-6995
DOI: 10.1007/bf03161188