Myocarditis and pericarditis recovery following smallpox vaccine 2002-2016: A comparative observational cohort study in the military health system.

Objectives: (1) Characterize the initial clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes of smallpox vaccine-associated hypersensitivity myocarditis and pericarditis (MP) in United States service members. (2) Describe the process of case identification and adjudication using the 2003 CDC nationally defined myocarditis/pericarditis epidemiologic case definitions to include consideration of case-specific diversity and evolving evidence.

Background: Between 2002 and 2016, 2.

Heterologous effect of influenza vaccination on molluscum contagiosum infection; a case report of siblings.

Background: Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is a benign, common cutaneous infection predominantly affecting the younger pediatric population. Traditional treatments may be time consuming with variable efficacy. Time to spontaneous resolution is variable and treatment is often sought to shorten duration of infection, prevent further autoinoculation, prevent infectious spread to others and treat cosmetic intolerability.

Myopericarditis Associated With Smallpox Vaccination Among US Army Personnel - Fort Hood, Texas, 2018.

Objective: In March 2018, the US Department of Defense (DOD) added the smallpox vaccination, using ACAM2000, to its routine immunizations, increasing the number of persons receiving the vaccine. The following month, Fort Hood reported a cluster of 5 myopericarditis cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the DOD launched an investigation.

Primary eosinophilic lung diseases.

Eosinophilic lung diseases typically present as a triad of pulmonary symptoms, an abnormal chest radiograph, and elevated levels of eosinophils in the sputum and lung tissue. This article focuses on primary causes of eosinophilic lung disease including acute eosinophilic pneumonia, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, Churg-Strauss syndrome, and hypereosinophilic syndromes. In these disorders elevated eosinophil levels in the tissue lead to inflammation and tissue damage.

Adverse events following smallpox vaccination with ACAM2000 in a military population.

Background: Generalized vaccinia and benign exanthems are 2 adverse events that have been associated with the smallpox vaccination. Accurate incidence and prevalence rates of each are not readily available, but these events are thought to be uncommon. To our knowledge, this is the first case series to provide clinical as well as pathologic descriptions of multiple papulovesicular eruptions occurring after receiving the second-generation smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000 (Acambis, Canton, Massachusetts), among a vaccinia-naïve military population.

Determination of the incidence of sensitization after penicillin skin testing.

Background: Concerns for sensitization after penicillin skin testing are a factor in limiting the timing and population for whom this testing is offered. The sensitizing potential of the penicillin skin test has never been studied directly.

Methods: A total of 329 volunteers underwent prick and intradermal skin testing with penicillin G, benzylpenicilloyl-polylysine, and a minor determinant mixture.