Post-Marketing Surveillance of the Adverse Events Following Immunization with a New Pentavalent Vaccine (DPT-HB+Hib)

Surveillance of adverse events following immunization with meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine: Tuscany, 2005-2012

INTRODUCTION Post-licensure vaccine safety studies are essential to identify uncommon events that may be difficult to assess during pre-licensure studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate the safety of serogroup C meningococcal conjugate (MCC) vaccine in Tuscany from 2005 to 2012. METHODS All adverse events (AEs) to MCC vaccine notified from 2005 to 2012 were obtained from the regional he...

Use of electronic immunization registry in the surveillance of adverse events following immunization

OBJECTIVE To describe adverse events following vaccination (AEFV) of children under two years old and analyze trend of this events from 2000 to 2013, in the city of Araraquara (SP), Brazil. METHODS This is a descriptive study conducted with data of the passive surveillance system of AEFV that is available in the electronic immunization registry (EIR) of the computerized medical record of the ...

Causality assessment of adverse events following immunization.

Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this article is to highlight the evidence on new and ongoing vaccine safety concerns in the light of several vaccines recently licensed and others made available and recommended more widely. RECENT FINDINGS There is increasingly convincing epidemiologic and laboratory evidence against a causal relation of several alleged adverse events following immunization. The ...

Analysis of adverse events following immunization caused by immunization errors.

Objective: to analyze adverse events following immunization (AEFI) caused by immunization error in the state of Paraná, Brazil, from 2003 to 2013. Method: this is a descriptive, documental, retrospective, and quantitative research using secondary data from the Adverse Event Following Immunization Information System and the Immunization Program Evaluation System. We included cases confirmed an...