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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Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism
The hypothesized link between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism continues to cause concern and challenge vaccine acceptance almost 2 decades after the controversial and later retracted Lancet paper from 1998 (1), even though ...
A. Hviid+3 more
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No association between islet cell antibodies and coxsackie B, mumps, rubella and cytomegalovirus antibodies in non-diabetic individuals aged 7–19 years [PDF]
Viral antibodies were tested in a cohort of 44 isletcell antibody-positive individuals age 7–19 years, and 44 of their islet cell antibody-negative age and sex-matched classmates selected from a population study of 4208 pupils who had been screened for ...
A Tarn+32 more
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The Concordance between Mumps and Rubella Sero-Positivity among the Israeli Population in 2015
Mumps and rubella are vaccine-preventable viral diseases through the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine, administered at 12 months and again at 6 years.
Ravit Bassal+12 more
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Mumps: an Update on Outbreaks, Vaccine Efficacy, and Genomic Diversity
Mumps is an acute viral infection characterized by inflammation of the parotid and other salivary glands. Persons with mumps are infectious from 2 days before through 5 days after parotitis onset, and transmission is through respiratory droplets. Despite
E. Lam, J. Rosen, J. Zucker
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Molecular epidemiology of mumps viruses in the Netherlands, 2017-2019
Mumps cases continue to occur, also in countries with a relatively high vaccination rate. The last major outbreaks of mumps in the Netherlands were in 2009–2012 and thereafter, only small clusters and single cases were reported.
Rogier Bodewes+7 more
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Establishing a small animal model for evaluating protective immunity against mumps virus. [PDF]
Although mumps vaccines have been used for several decades, protective immune correlates have not been defined. Recently, mumps outbreaks have occurred in vaccinated populations.
Adrian Pickar+6 more
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ObjectivesDespite the adoption of a new childhood immunization program in China, the incidence of mumps remains high. This study aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of mumps in Jilin Province from 2005 to 2019 and to assess the ...
Tianlong Yang+10 more
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Analysis of microsprings for calculating the force produced by microactuators [PDF]
We present models of two types of microsprings namely box-spring and zig-zag spring that can be used to measure the force generated by microactuators. The spring constant for both springs is calculated by FEM using ANSYS software.
Li, Lijie, Uttamchandani, Deepak G.
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Close the gap for routine mumps vaccination in Japan
Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease. Because the mumps vaccine can cause aseptic meningitis in rare cases, this vaccine is not routine in Japan. This has led to low vaccine coverage and severe disease burden in Japan.
T. Kitano
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