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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016 Background In many industrialized countries routine vaccination with the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV-23) is recommended to prevent pneumococcal disease in the elderly. However, vaccine-induced immunity wanes after a few years, and
Cornelius Remschmidt +4 more
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Vaccines, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic posed substantial challenges to healthcare systems globally and severely disrupted essential health services, including routine immunization programs.
Pawan Kumar +10 more
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Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations
, 2003 We present an effective immunization strategy for computer networks and populations with broad and, in particular, scale-free degree distributions. The proposed strategy, acquaintance immunization, calls for the immunization of random acquaintances of ...
Daniel ben-Avraham +6 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2021 Quantitative and qualitative assessments have revealed diverse factors that influence the uptake of childhood immunisation services and shed light on reasons for vaccination delays and refusals. UNICEF and partner organisations developed the Immunisation
Dimitri Prybylski +15 more
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Effects of immunization in small-world epidemics [PDF]
, 2001 The propagation of model epidemics on a small-world network under the action of immunization is studied. Although the connectivity in this kind of networks is rather uniform, a vaccination strategy focused on the best connected individuals yields a ...
Kuperman, Marcelo, Zanette, Damian H.
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Drug Delivery, 2018 Avian influenza virus infection is a serious public health threat and preventive vaccination is the most cost-effective public health intervention strategy.
Weiping Cao +8 more
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Is the impact of childhood influenza vaccination less than expected: a transmission modelling study
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background To reduce the burden of severe influenza, most industrialized countries target specific risk-groups with influenza vaccines, e.g. the elderly or individuals with comorbidities.
Felix Weidemann +5 more
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Dispersion measures as immunization risk measures [PDF]
, 2002 The quadratic and linear cash flow dispersion measures M2 and Ñ are two immunization risk measures designed to build immunized bond portfolios. This paper generalizes these two measures by showing that any dispersion measure is an immunization risk ...
Balbás, Alejandro +2 more
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2019 Background Mother to child transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains the most common form of HBV infection in China. Prevention of HBV vertical transmission involves timely administration of the complete hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) series and ...
Hui Zheng +9 more
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Passive immunization against Histomonas meleagridis does not protect turkeys from an experimental infection [PDF]
, 2009 Histomonosis or blackhead is a disease of gallinaceous birds, caused by the protozoan Histomonas meleagridis. As recent regulatory action has removed almost all drugs against this disease from the European market, the development of new prophylactics has
Bleyen, Nele +3 more
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