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Making sense of emerging evidence on the non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine on malaria risk and neonatal mortality

BMJ Global Health, 2020
Vaccines are, indisputably, one of the greatest public health interventions, with a substantial positive impact on child survival. The remarkable declines in child mortality observed during the last quarter of a century, whereby global under 5 deaths ...
Q. Bassat, G. Moncunill, C. Dobaño
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bi‐ and Mono‐Allelic RFC1 Expansion in a North American Cohort With Idiopathic Axonal Neuropathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective RFC1 biallelic repeat expansion is increasingly recognized as a cause of chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP), but it remains challenging to know who to test. This study aims to determine the prevalence of biallelic and monoallelic RFC1 expansions and their corresponding neuropathy phenotypes in CIAP patients and identify ...
Amro M. Stino, Lavanya Muthukumar, Evan L. Reynolds, Peter Todd, Sinem Ovunc, Sheng Chih Jin, Zitian Tang, Simone Thomas, PNRR Study Group, Ahmet Höke, Brian C. Callaghan, Sarah Berth, Vinay Chaudhry, David Cornblath, Leana Doherty, Lindsey Hayes, Hristelina Ilieva, Thomas Lloyd, Mohammad Khoshnoodi, Brett McCray, Brett Morrison, Bipasha Mukherjee‐Clavin, Lyle Ostrow, Michael Polydefkis, Ricardo Roda, Charlotte Sumner   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterologous Immunity: Role in Natural and Vaccine-Induced Resistance to Infections

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
The central paradigm of vaccination is to generate resistance to infection by a specific pathogen when the vacinee is re-exposed to that pathogen. This paradigm is based on two fundamental characteristics of the adaptive immune system, specificity and ...
Babita Agrawal
doaj   +1 more source

Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Inactivated Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis Vaccine on the Response to a Heterologous Bacterial Challenge in Pigs

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Background: Vaccines may have non-specific effects, affecting resistance to heterologous pathogens. Veterinary vaccines have seldom been investigated for their non-specific effects.
Kristoffer Jarlov Jensen, Kristoffer Jarlov Jensen, Mette Sif Hansen, Peter Mikael Helweg Heegaard, Christine Stabell Benn, Christine Stabell Benn, Gregers Jungersen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are BCG-induced non-specific effects adequate to provide protection against COVID-19?

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
The world is experiencing a pandemic of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) caused by type-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Vaccination is the only option to prevent future surges of the disease.
V. Vashishtha
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building a Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Rheumatology Context: Content and Approaches

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
wiley   +1 more source

Developing the concept of beneficial non-specific effect of live vaccines with epidemiological studies [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019
Epidemiological and immunological studies are increasingly reporting non-specific effects (NSEs) of vaccines; i.e. vaccines may affect the risk and severity of non-targeted infections. We reviewed how epidemiological studies developed the concept of beneficial NSEs of live vaccines.This is a personal narrative of how we came to pursue the concept of ...
Aaby, P., Benn, C. S.; id_orcid 0000-0001-6102-3810   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis–Specific Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions: Results of a Consensus Process

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ambulatory care–sensitive conditions (ACSCs) serve as indicators of access, quality, and performance of the health system. This study aimed to determine rheumatoid arthritis (RA)‐specific ACSCs for use in the evaluation of care system access and quality.
Kara Irwin, Candace H. Feldman, Claire E. H. Barber, Gabriel Fabreau, Jake Jennings, Scott Patten, Cheryl Barnabe, Inflammatory Arthritis‐Specific ACSC Consensus Process Working Group   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of Increase in Mortality After the Introduction of Diphtheria–Tetanus–Pertussis Vaccine to Children Aged 6–35 Months in Guinea-Bissau: A Time for Reflection?

Frontiers in Public Health, 2018
BackgroundWhole-cell diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis (DTP) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) were introduced to children in Guinea-Bissau in 1981. We previously reported that DTP in the target age group from 3 to 5 months of age was associated with higher ...
Peter Aaby, Peter Aaby, Søren Wengel Mogensen, Amabelia Rodrigues, Christine S. Benn, Christine S. Benn   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source