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Vaccination Uptake and Patient Perceptions Among Haemodialysis Patients: Insights From a Cross‐Sectional Study

Journal of Renal Care, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Haemodialysis patients face an elevated risk of infectious diseases due to immunosuppression and frequent exposure to healthcare settings. Vaccination is a critical preventive strategy for this population; however, coverage remains inconsistent across different vaccines.
Eirini Potamianou, Ioanna Dimitriadou, Maria Saridi, Aikaterini Toska, Evangelos C. Fradelos, Paraskevi Theofilou, Dimitrios Papagiannis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Māori and community news constructions of Meningococcal B: the promotion of a moral obligation to vaccinate [PDF]

, 2007
News media communicate various risks of disease, showcase medical breakthroughs and disseminate texts that both reflect and renegotiate shared cultural understandings of health and illness. Little is known about the role of Māori and community news media
Chamberlain, Kerry, Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree, Hodgetts, Darrin, Karapu, Rolinda, Ngata, Ronald, Nikora, Linda Waimarie   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Risk factors for acquisition of meningococcal carriage in the African meningitis belt

Tropical medicine & international health, 2019
To investigate potential risk factors for acquisition in seven countries of the meningitis belt.
L. Cooper, A. Robson, C. Trotter, A. Aseffa, J. Collard, D. Daugla, A. Diallo, A. Hodgson, J. Jusot, B. Omotara, S. Sow, M. Hassan-King, O. Manigart, M. Nascimento, A. Woukeu, D. Chandramohan, R. Borrow, Martin C. J. Maiden, Brian M. Greenwood, J. Stuart, Oumer Ahmed Tsehaynesh Tesfaye Yenenesh Alemayehu Haiman Ali Bedru Lema Moti Tekletsion Worku Xabher Yamuah, Oumer Ali, A. Bedru, Tsehaynesh Lema, Tesfaye Moti, Y. Tekletsion, Alemayehu Worku, Haimanot Guebre Xabher, L. Yamuah, R. M. Boukary, I. D. Dano, Ibrahim Habiboulaye, B. Issaka, S. Ousmane, Issoufa Rabe, J. Gami, K. Gamougam, L. Mbainadji, N. Naibei, M. Narbé, J. Toralta, A. Berthé, Kanny Diallo, Mahamadou Keita, Uma Onwuchekwa, S. Sow, Boubou Tamboura, A. Traoré, A. Toure, T. Clark, Leonard Mayer, M. Amodu, O. Beida, G. Gadzama, Zailani Sambo, S. Yahya, Brian M. Greenwood, N. Basta, Xilian Bai, H. Findlow, Serge Alavo, H. Bassene, Mariétou Dieng, S. Doucouré, J. Gomis, A. Ndiaye, C. Sokhna, J. Trape, B. Akalifa, A. Forgor, Isaac Osei, S. Quaye, John Williams, Peter Wontuo, T. Irving, Julia S. Bennett, Dorothea M. C. Hill, O. Harrison, Martin C. J. Maiden, L. Rebbetts, E. Watkins   +80 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Narsoplimab Results in Excellent Survival in Adults and Children With Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TA‐TMA)

American Journal of Hematology, Volume 100, Issue 11, Page 2040-2051, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Inappropriate complement activation is a key driver of hematopoietic cell transplant‐associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA‐TMA). Treatment with narsoplimab, an inhibitor of MASP‐2, the effector enzyme of the lectin pathway, resulted in a response rate of 61% in a Phase 2 clinical trial in adults with TA‐TMA.
Michelle L. Schoettler, Sunil Kumar Pusarla, Narinder Nangia, Miguel‐Angel Perales, Rafael F. Duarte, Andreas Grauer, Alessandro Rambaldi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cost-effectiveness of alternative vaccination strategies for polyvalent meningococcal vaccines in Burkina Faso: A transmission dynamic modeling study. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: The introduction of a conjugate vaccine for serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis has dramatically reduced disease in the African meningitis belt.
Cohen, Ted, Colijn, Caroline, Colombini, Anaïs, Kristiansen, Paul A, LaForce, F Marc, Resch, Stephen, Trotter, Caroline, Yaesoubi, Maziar, Yaesoubi, Reza   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

The Silent Risk of Sudan Virus: A Review Addressing Global Health Vulnerabilities

Health Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) is a deadly hemorrhagic fever caused by the Sudan virus, first discovered in Sudan in 1976. This disease has been linked to several outbreaks in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly in Uganda. The high fatality rate of SVD, ranging from 41% to 70%, emphasizes the critical need for effective preventive ...
Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan, Sakif Ahamed Khan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adjuvants : an essential component of neisseria vaccines [PDF]

, 2009
Adjuvants may be classified into delivery systems and immune potentiator or modulator molecules based on their mechanism of action. Neisseria vaccines containing traditional adjuvants such as aluminium salts have existed for long time, but meningitis ...
Acevedo, R., Balbao, J., Cabrera, O., Cuello, M., del Campo, J., Ferro, Valerie A., Gonzales, E., Romeu, B., Zayas, C.   +8 more
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From the microbiome to the central nervous system, an update on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis in childhood [version 1; referees: 3 approved] [PDF]

, 2017
In the past century, advances in antibiotics and vaccination have dramatically altered the incidence and clinical outcomes of bacterial meningitis. We review the shifting epidemiology of meningitis in children, including after the implementation of ...
Janowski, Andrew B, Newland, Jason G
core   +3 more sources

Successful African introduction of a new Group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine: Future challenges and next steps

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
The introduction of a new Group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine, MenAfriVacR, has been a important public health success. Group A meningococcal meningitis has disappeared in all countries where the new Men A conjugate vaccine has been used at public ...
F. Marc LaForce, Mamoudou Djingarey, Simonetta Viviani, Marie-Pierre Preziosi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meningococcal Meningitis Surveillance in the African Meningitis Belt, 2004–2013

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2015
Background. An enhanced meningitis surveillance network was established across the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa in 2003 to rapidly collect, disseminate, and use district weekly data on meningitis incidence.
C. Lingani, Cassi Bergeron-Caron, J. Stuart, Katya Fernandez, M. Djingarey, O. Ronveaux, J. Schnitzler, W. Perea   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source