Impact of communicative and informative strategies on influenza vaccination adherence and absenteeism from work of health care professionals working at the university hospital of palermo, Italy: A quasi-experimental field trial on twelve influenza seasons [PDF]
, 2019 Every year, about 20% of health care workers (HCWs) acquire influenza, continuing to work and encouraging virus spreading. Influenza vaccination coverage rates and absenteeism from work among HCWs of the University Hospital (UH) of Palermo were analyzed ...
Bono S. +8 more
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Vaccines, 2018 Vaccination against influenza is the most effective approach for reducing influenza morbidity and mortality. However, influenza vaccines are unique among all licensed vaccines as they are updated and administered annually to antigenically match the ...
Surender Khurana
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Adjuvantation of Influenza Vaccines to Induce Cross-Protective Immunity
Vaccines, 2021 Influenza poses a huge threat to global public health. Influenza vaccines are the most effective and cost-effective means to control influenza. Current influenza vaccines mainly induce neutralizing antibodies against highly variable globular head of ...
Zhuofan Li +3 more
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A bivalent live-attenuated influenza vaccine for the control and prevention of H3N8 and H3N2 canine influenza viruses [PDF]
, 2017 Canine influenza viruses (CIVs) cause a contagious respiratory disease in dogs. CIV subtypes include H3N8, which originated from the transfer of H3N8 equine influenza virus (EIV) to dogs; and the H3N2, which is an avian-origin virus adapted to infect ...
Martínez-Sobrido, Luis +4 more
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Projected impact of a plant-derived vaccine on the burden of seasonal influenza in Canada
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 Objective The analysis estimates projected population outcomes resulting from the introduction of a plant-derived influenza vaccine formulated as quadrivalent virus-like particles (QVLP) in Canada.
Lauren Ramjee +7 more
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Adjuvanted influenza vaccines [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2012 The search for adjuvants has been stimulated by the need to ensure greater protection against influenza among subjects who show a reduced immune response to conventional influenza vaccines. Aluminum salts have long been used but are not considered satisfactory.
N. Principi, S. Esposito
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Cell culture-derived flu vaccine: Present and future
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018 The benefit of influenza vaccines is difficult to estimate due to the complexity of accurately assessing the burden of influenza. To improve the efficacy of influenza vaccines, vaccine manufacturers have developed quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV ...
Alberto Pérez Rubio, Jose María Eiros
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Protective efficacy of a broadly cross-reactive swine influenza DNA vaccine encoding M2e, cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope and consensus H3 hemagglutinin [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Pigs have been implicated as mixing reservoir for the generation of new pandemic influenza strains, control of swine influenza has both veterinary and public health significance.
Bin Wang +5 more
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Virus-Vectored Influenza Virus Vaccines
Viruses, 2014 Despite the availability of an inactivated vaccine that has been licensed for >50 years, the influenza virus continues to cause morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Ralph A. Tripp, S. Mark Tompkins
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Substitutions near the hemagglutinin receptor-binding site determine the antigenic evolution of influenza A H3N2 viruses in U.S. swine [PDF]
, 2014 Swine influenza A virus is an endemic and economically important pathogen in pigs, with the potential to infect other host species. The hemagglutinin (HA) protein is the primary target of protective immune responses and the major component in swine ...
A. L. Vincent +58 more
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