1. Transverse myelitis unlikely to be due to measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
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Reinhard Fescharek and Hermann Dass
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine ,business.industry ,General Engineering ,Myelitis ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Rubella ,Measles ,Transverse myelitis ,Rubella vaccine ,Mumps vaccine ,Immunology ,medicine ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Measles vaccine ,business ,General Environmental Science ,medicine.drug - Abstract
EDITOR,--K A Joyce and J E Rees report on a 20 year old man who developed subacute transverse myelitis two to three weeks after immunisation with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.1 Five days after vaccination he developed a feverish exanthematous disease, which fluctuated for two weeks and preceded the onset of the neurological symptoms. Postvaccination transverse myelitis was diagnosed when a significant rise in titres of rubella antibodies was …
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- 1995
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