Tdap Vaccination During Pregnancy and Microcephaly and Other Structural Birth Defects in Offspring

JAMA. 2016 Nov 1;316(17):1823-1825. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.14432.

Authors

Malini DeSilva¹, Gabriela Vazquez-Benitez¹, James D Nordin¹, Heather S Lipkind², Paul A Romitti³, Frank DeStefano⁴, Elyse O Kharbanda¹

Affiliations

¹ HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ University of Iowa, Iowa City.
⁴ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

PMID: 27802536
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.14432

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Comment

MeSH terms

Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis Vaccines
Female
Humans
Microcephaly*
Pregnancy
Tetanus*
Vaccination
Whooping Cough

Substances

Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis Vaccines

Grants and funding

P30 ES005605/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States