title: Vaccination and allergic disease: a birth cohort study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined the effect of vaccination for diphtheria; polio; pertussis and tetanus; or measles, mumps, and rubella on the incidence of physician-diagnosed asthma and eczema.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used a previously established birth cohort in the West Midlands General Practice research database.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found an association between vaccination and the development of allergic disease; however, this association was present only among children with the fewest physician visits and can be explained by this factor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our data suggest that currently recommended routine vaccinations are not a risk factor for asthma or eczema.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Science Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, England, UK. tricia.mckeever@nottingham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tricia M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: McKeever
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hubbard
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004485:Eczema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010821:Physicians, Family; D014611:Vaccination / Q000009:adverse effects*