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Efficacy Issues/Failure

Why Do Pertussis Vaccines Fail?
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/5/968.extract

Unexpectedly limited durability of immunity following acellular pertussis vaccination in preadolescents in a North American outbreak
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/12/1730.abstract

Selection of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Vaccine Escape Mutants in HBV-Infected and HBV/HIV-Coinfected Patients Failing Antiretroviral Drugs With Anti-HBV Activity
http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2007/11010/Selection_of_Hepatitis_B_Virus__HBV__Vaccine.4.aspx

Measles outbreak in a fully immunized secondary-school population
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3821823

Severe tetanus in immunized patients with high anti-tetanus titers
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1565228?dopt=Abstract

Acellular pertussis vaccination facilitates Bordetella parapertussis infection in a rodent model of bordetellosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20200027

Mumps outbreak among vaccinated university students associated with a large party, the Netherlands, 2010
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X12006299

Waning Protection after Fifth Dose of Acellular Pertussis Vaccine in Children
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200850

Review of the United States universal varicella vaccination program: Herpes zoster incidence rates, cost-effectiveness, and vaccine efficacy based primarily on the Antelope Valley Varicella Active Surveillance Project data
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X12007761

Effectiveness of Jeryl Lynn-containing vaccine in Spanish children
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19356610

Mumps Orchitis in the Post-Vaccine Era (1967Y2009)
This file is a PDFhttp://www.vaccine-tlc.org/docs/Mumps.pdf

Considerations for Viral Disease Eradication: Lessons Learned and Future Strategies
Quote: Important and often overlooked, mass vaccinations itself can also exert tremendous selective pressures and lead to the evolution of new infectious agents.
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10424&page=R1

Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0706589#t=article

Risk of vaccine failure after Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) combination vaccines with acellular pertussis
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)13171-6/fulltext

Measles outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failures
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646939/

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis–the continuing threat
(cut and paste link to download PDF)
hrcak.srce.hr/file/43654

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