Rubella vaccine

Rubella vaccine
Rubella vaccine
Vaccine description
Target disease Rubella
Type Attenuated virus
Clinical data
MedlinePlus a601176
Pregnancy cat.  ?
Legal status  ?
Identifiers
ATC code J07BJ01
 N(what is this?)  vaccine (verify)

Rubella vaccine is a vaccine used against rubella.[1] One form is called "Meruvax".[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Josefson D (March 2001). "Rubella vaccine may be safe in early pregnancy". BMJ 322 (7288): 695. PMC 1119900. PMID 11264203. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1119900. 
  2. ^ Weibel RE, Caserta V, Benor DE, Evans G (March 1998). "Acute encephalopathy followed by permanent brain injury or death associated with further attenuated measles vaccines: a review of claims submitted to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program". Pediatrics 101 (3 Pt 1): 383–7. doi:10.1542/peds.101.3.383. PMID 9481001. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9481001. 
v · d · eArtificial induction of immunity / Immunization: Vaccines, Vaccination, and Inoculation (J07)
Development

List of vaccine ingredients · Adjuvants · Mathematical modelling · Timeline · Trials

Classes: Inactivated vaccine · Live vector vaccine (Attenuated vaccine, Heterologous vaccine) · Toxoid · Subunit/component / Peptide / Virus-like particle · Conjugate vaccine · DNA vaccination
Administration
Global: GAVI Alliance · Policy · Schedule · Vaccine injury
USA: ACIP · VAERS · VSD · Vaccine court · Vaccines for Children Program
Vaccines
Bacterial

Anthrax · Brucellosis · Cholera# · Diphtheria# · Hib# · Meningococcus# (NmVac4-A/C/Y/W-135, NmVac4-A/C/Y/W-135 - DT, MeNZB) · Pertussis# · Plague · Pneumococcal# (PPSV, PCV) · Tetanus# · Tuberculosis (BCG)# · Typhoid# (Ty21a, ViCPS) · Typhus

combination: DTwP/DTaP
Viral

Adenovirus · Tick-borne encephalitis · Japanese encephalitis# · Flu# (LAIV, H1N1 (Pandemrix)) · Hepatitis A# · Hepatitis B# · HPV (Gardasil, Cervarix) · Measles# · Mumps# (Mumpsvax) · Polio# (Salk, Sabin) · Rabies# · Rotavirus# · Rubella# · Smallpox (Dryvax) · Varicella zoster (chicken pox#, shingles) · Herpes simplex† · Yellow fever#
combination: MMR · MMRV

research: Cytomegalovirus · Epstein-Barr · HIV · Hepatitis C
Protozoan
Malaria · Trypanosomiasis
Schistosomiasis · Hookworm
Other
Controversy
See also

M: BAC

bact (clas)

gr+f/gr+a(t)/gr-p(c)/gr-o

drug(J1p, w, n, m, vacc)

M: VIR

virs(prot)/clss

cutn/syst (hppv/hiva, infl/zost/zoon)/epon

drugJ(dnaa, rnaa, rtva, vacc)

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