Abstract
One hundred and fifty one patients (64 with epilepsy, 21 with febrile convulsion, 26 with myasthenia gravis, 10 with cerebral palsy and others) were vaccinated against measles, varicella, rubella, mumps, influenza, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and Japanese B encephalitis. The vaccines were inoculated 510 times and the side effects were observed 56 times (11.0%). Fever was observed in 47 patients, 6 revealed convulsion and 3 showed aggravation of the underlying disease. However, these side effects disappeared within a few days. EEG patterns did not change significantly before and after vaccination in epileptic patients. Severe complications were not experienced in any of the cases studied. The seroconversion rates were 83% in 100 varicella vaccine recipients, 95.7% in 69 measles vaccine recipients, 93.4% in 106 rubella vaccine recipients and 99.0% in 97 mumps vaccine recipients. These results were similar to those in healthy children.
