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Chickenpox Vaccine
Attribution
Author:Eileen McLaughlin, RN, BSN
Date Written:
Editor:Crist, Gayle P., MS, BA
Edit Date:02/05/02
Reviewer:Melissa Sanders, PharmD
Date Reviewed:02/08/02
Sources
Vaccine information sheets, US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Immunization Program, www.cdc.gov/nip/
The Chicken Pox Vaccine: What Parents Need to Know, American Academy of Pediatrics, www.aap.org/family/chckpox.htm
Prevention of varicella: updated recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), MMWR 1999;48(RR-06):1-5.
Prevention of varicella: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), MMWR 1996;45(RR-11):1-43.