Original articleSeizures following childhood immunizations†
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2013, VaccineCitation Excerpt :However, the large sample size required for this study and the low frequency of FS following immunizations precluded the analysis of FS due to fever following vaccine administration only. Nonetheless, FS following vaccination are thought to be due to fever associated with vaccination not the vaccine itself, and have indistinguishable characteristics and identical prognosis to FS due to fever from other sources [22–25]. Serious sources of fever and seizures, such as meningitis and encephalitis, preclude the diagnosis of FS and hence, were not included in our analysis.
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Presented in part as a poster at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, April 1982, Washington, D.C.