Nicola Soriolo, Roberto Benoni, Diana Dalla Valle, Francesco Zunino, Adele Olivieri, Irene Campagna, Stefano Tardivo, Laura Augusta Gonella, Francesca Russo, Michele Tonon, Filippo Da Re, Ugo Moretti, Giovanna Zanoni, Francesca Moretti
OBJECTIVE: The vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMR and V) have been mandatory in Italy since 2017. Two different vaccination strategies are suggested for the first dose: trivalent MMR and a separate V vaccine or the tetravalent MMRV vaccine. Our aim is to compare the safety profile of MMRV and MMR-V vaccines through the passive adverse event reporting system in the Veneto region and to perform a case-by-case review of a few conditions of interest (febrile and afebrile seizures, ataxia, encephalitis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia and Henoch-Schönlein Purpura)...
May 2024: Preventive Medicine Reports