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School-based educational and on-site vaccination intervention among adolescents: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Childhood vaccination programmes have been established in all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries; however, measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) as well as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio (Tdap-IPV ...
Bethke, Norma   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Infection control in the brain and the eye

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measles: how many hospitalised cases are we missing? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
We aimed to determine whether the Victorian measles surveillance system had missed hospitalised cases of measles during an inter-epidemic period. We searched the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset (VIMD) for the period 1 January 1997 to 30 June 1998 to ...
Andrews, Ross M.   +3 more
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Ethical Considerations Regarding the Vaccination of Children—The Power Dynamics Between Doctors and Parents

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Going Viral: Vaccines, Free Speech, and the Harm Principle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper analyzes the case of public anti-vaccine campaigns and examines whether there may be a normative case for placing limitations on public speech of this type on harm principle grounds.
Unterreiner, Miles
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Detection of measles vaccine virus and measles-specific immunoglobulin M in children vaccinated against measles-mumps-rubella during measles outbreak

open access: yesVaccine: X
Information regarding the detection perioid of measles vaccine virus (MeVV) RNA in human nasopharyngeal samples and measles-specific antibodies following measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination is limited. During contact tracing for a measles outbreak at
Euri Seo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

EPI Update, March 25, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public ...

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Characteristics of 5-year-olds who catch-up with MMR: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +2 more sources

Green Stool Predominance in Babies and Subsequent Bowel Function at 1–2 Years of Age

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To study the relationship between bowel function after birth and at 1–2 years of age in the prospective HELMi cohort of term infants. Methods We focused on infants with predominantly green stools (n = 152) for three consecutive weeks in early life and their sex, age, and delivery mode‐matched controls (n = 300), and evaluated bowel ...
L. Typpö   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Importance of real-time RT-PCR to supplement the laboratory diagnosis in the measles elimination program in China.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
In addition to high vaccination coverage, timely and accurate laboratory confirmation of measles cases is critical to interrupt measles transmission.
Aili Cui   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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