Resources and References

Vaccine safety

• Varicella Vaccine Safety

Provider education

• Information for Healthcare Providers

Materials for patients

• Chickenpox Story [2 pages]
• Chickenpox factsheet for parents
• Chickenpox: Questions and Answers, Immunization Action Coalition
• Chickenpox Vaccine Information Statement
  • Combined Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella Vaccine Information Statement
  • MMR & Varicella Vaccines or MMRV Vaccine: Discussing Options with Parents

Clinical information on disease

• Clinical Overview
• Pink Book: Varicella

Published Recommendations and Resources

• Shapiro ED, Vazquez M, Esposito D, Holabird N, Steinberg SP, Dziura J, et al. Effectiveness of 2 doses of varicella vaccine in children. J Infect Dis. 2011 Feb;203(3):312-5.
• Son M, Shapiro ED, LaRussa P, Neu N, Michalik DE, Meglin M, et al. Effectiveness of varicella vaccine in children infected with HIV. J Infect Dis. 2010 Jun 15;201(12):1806-10.
• Gould PL, Leung J, Scott C, Schmid DS, Deng H, Lopez A, et al. An outbreak of varicella in elementary school children with two-dose varicella vaccine recipients—Arkansas, 2006. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 Aug;28(8):678-81.
• Marin M, Meissner HC, Seward JF. Varicella prevention in the United States: a review of successes and challenges. Pediatrics. 2008 Sep;122(3):e744-51. Review.
• Seward JF, Marin M, Vasquez M. Varicella vaccine effectiveness in the United States vaccination program: a review. J Infect Dis (Suppl). 2008 Mar 1;197 Suppl 2:S82-9. Review.
• Chaves SS, Gargiullo P, Zhang JX, Civen R, Guris D, Mascola L, et al. Loss of vaccine-induced immunity to varicella over time. N Engl J Med. 2007 Mar 15;356(11):1121-9.
• Kuter B, Matthews H, Shinefield H, Black S, Dennehy P, Watson B, et al. Ten year follow-up of healthy children who received one or two injections of varicella vaccine. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004;23:132-7.
• Vázquez M, LaRussa PS, Gershon AA, Niccolai LM, Muehlenbein CE, Steinberg SP, Shapiro ED. Effectiveness over time of varicella vaccine. JAMA. 2004 Feb 18;291(7):851-5.
• Johnson CE, Stancin T, Fattlar D, Rome LP, Kumar ML. A long-term prospective study of varicella vaccine in healthy children. Pediatrics. 1997;100:761-6.
• Asano Y, Suga S, Yoshikawa T, Kobavashi I, Yazaki T, Shibata M, et al. Experience and reason: twenty-year follow-up of protective immunity of the Oka strain live varicella vaccine. Pediatrics. 1994;94:524-6.

Other References and resources

• Pink Book's Chapter on General Recommendations on Immunization