Determination of ELISA reactive mumps IgG antibodies in MMR vaccine recipients in comparison with MMR vaccine naïve children: a cross sectional study [PDF]
Background: Mumps is a vaccine preventable infectious disease characterized by parotitis. In India mumps vaccines are not currently used under NIP. Waning of vaccine-induced immunity is considered to play a central role in the reemergence of mumps.
Bhargava, Abhishek+3 more
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Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in children
Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox) are serious diseases that can lead to serious complications, disability, and death. However, public debate over the safety of the trivalent MMR vaccine and the resultant drop in vaccination coverage in several countries persists, despite its almost universal use and accepted effectiveness.
A Rivetti+4 more
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Mandatory vaccinations in European countries, undocumented information, false news and the impact on vaccination uptake: the position of the Italian pediatric society. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: High rates of vaccination coverage are important in preventing infectious diseases. Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some Countries adopted to protect the community when vaccination coverage is not satisfactory ...
Bozzola E+5 more
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Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK [PDF]
One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information.
Arnaud Chevalier+2 more
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Teenagers’ understandings of and attitudes towards vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases: a qualitative study [PDF]
<p>Background: To examine immunisation information needs of teenagers we explored understandings of vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases, attitudes towards immunisation and experiences of immunisation.
Barbour+48 more
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Knowledge, attitude and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations among healthcare workers [PDF]
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are an important group of professionals exposed to biological risk during their work activities. So, the aim of this study is to perform a survey on the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of Italian HCWs towards the vaccinations ...
Chiarini, Massimiliano+5 more
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Characteristics of 5-year-olds who catch-up with MMR: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study [PDF]
Objectives To examine predictors of partial and full measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination catch-up between 3 and 5 years. Design Secondary data analysis of the nationally representative Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Bedford, Helen+3 more
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Varicella vaccines and measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine
To present an up-to-date review of studies investigating the efficacy, adverse events and vaccination regimens of the varicella vaccine and the new presentation combined with the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.Bibliographic review of the MEDLINE and LILACS databases covering the period 1999 to 2006.The varicella vaccine protects 70 to 90% of ...
Gabriel Wolf Oselka+2 more
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Measles Vaccination Before the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
At the beginning of the 1960s, it was clear that a vaccine against measles would soon be available. Although measles was (and remains) a killer disease in the developing world, in the United States and Western Europe this was no longer so. Many parents and many medical practitioners considered measles an inevitable stage of a child’s development ...
Stuart Blume, Jan Hendriks
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The reform of the Italian legislation on childhood immunization [PDF]
Upon the proposal of the Italian government, Law n. 191/2017 has been enacted, meant to considerably raise the number of mandatory vaccinations, while leaving several others merely "recommended" (non-mandatory).
Cocchiara, Rosario Andrea+4 more
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