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Summary Shift work can cause circadian misalignment, which often results in sleeping problems and has been associated with immune dysfunction. To better understand the impact of shift work on a primary immune response to vaccination, we compared severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)‐specific humoral and cellular immune responses ...
Tamara M. J. Brouwers+14 more
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Factors Associated with Immunization Opinion Leadership among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Los Angeles, California [PDF]
We sought to identify the characteristics of men who have sex with men (MSM) who are opinion leaders on immunization issues and to identify potential opportunities to leverage their influence for vaccine promotion within MSM communities.
Bednarczyk, Robert+9 more
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Meningococcal disease and climate
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an epidemic infectious disease highly influenced by climatic factors. Climate plays an important role in both the spatial distribution of the disease and in the seasonality of IMD as seen all over the world. It is mentioned as one of the infectious diseases likely to be affected by climate change in the Fourth ...
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ABSTRACT Introduction Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disorder characterised by autoantibodies against the acetylcholine receptor (AChR‐Ab). Morvan syndrome (MoS) is a rarer autoimmune disease with neuromyotonia, dysautonomia and encephalopathy, associated with antibodies targeting contactin‐associated protein‐like 2 (CASPR2) and may coexist ...
Vincent Fabry+5 more
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Meningococcal disease is the urgent problem of healthcare due to its widespread prevalence, high incidence, severe course and high risk of mortality. Vaccination of Russian Federation population with polyvalent meningococcal vaccine for serogroups A, C ...
Olga A. Richkova+7 more
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Neisseria meningitidis accumulate in large organs during meningococcal sepsis
BackgroundNeisseria meningitidis (Nm) is the cause of epidemic meningitis and fulminant meningococcal septicemia. The clinical presentations and outcome of meningococcal septic shock is closely related to the circulating levels of lipopolysaccharides ...
Berit Sletbakk Brusletto+5 more
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Meningococcal disease occurs as both endemic and epidemic disease in most parts of the world with significant morbidity and mortality. Among the different serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis, serogroups A, B, C account for 90% of the disease. In the last few years there has been a change in the epidemiology of the disease with an increase in the ...
J, Correia, C A, Hart
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ABSTRACT Introduction Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) present significant challenges to emergency response systems, often overwhelming healthcare resources. This article highlights the critical role of integrating postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) into emergency protocols to mitigate immediate and secondary health risks occurring due to mass casualty.
Majani Edward+3 more
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Objectives: To analyze the behavior of meningococcal disease in the Federal District, Brazil, from 2005 to 2011, and to assess the direct impact of the meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine.
Márcia de Cantuária Tauil+3 more
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Looking beyond meningococcal B with the 4CMenB vaccine: the Neisseria effect
Infections with Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae have different clinical manifestations, but the bacteria share up to 80–90% genome sequence identity.
Yara Ruiz García+9 more
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