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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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Characterization of a predominant Bordetella pertussis strain isolated from Iranian patients
Vaccine Research, 2018 Introduction: Pathogen adaptation is considered as one of the important reasons for the emergence of pertussis (whooping cough). Antigenic divergence between vaccine strains and clinical isolates of Bordetella pertussis has been occurred over the years ...
VS Nikbin +5 more
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Pertussis in infants, in their mothers and other contacts in Casablanca, Morocco
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background In recent decades, there has been a marked increase in the number of reported cases of pertussis around the world, and pertussis continues to be a frequently occurring disease despite an effective childhood vaccination.
Khalid Katfy +9 more
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Knowledge, attitude and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations among healthcare workers [PDF]
, 2017 Healthcare workers (HCWs) are an important group of professionals exposed to biological risk during their work activities. So, the aim of this study is to perform a survey on the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of Italian HCWs towards the vaccinations ...
Chiarini, Massimiliano +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2013 Background and Objective: Due to contagiousness of pertussis, a rapid and sensitive method for diagnosis is required to initiate the treatment and interrupt its transmission. Materials and Methods: To detect B.
Vajiheh Sadat Nikbin +4 more
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Less reactogenic whole-cell pertussis vaccine confers protection from Bordetella pertussis infection
mSpherePertussis resurged over the last decade in most countries that replaced the traditional whole-cell pertussis vaccines (wP) by the less reactogenic acellular pertussis vaccines (aP).
Karolína Škopová +6 more
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Infant rhesus macaques as a non-human primate model of Bordetella pertussis infection
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background The prevalent resurgence of pertussis has recently become a critical public health problem worldwide. To understand pertussis pathogenesis and the host response to both the pathogen and vaccines, a suitable pertussis animal model, particularly
Wenwen Jiang +14 more
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Mathematical Model of Vaccine Noncompliance [PDF]
, 2016 Vaccine scares can prevent individuals from complying with a vaccination program. When compliance is high, the critical vaccination proportion is close to being met, and herd immunity occurs, bringing the disease incidence to extremely low levels.
Bauer, Jordan, Capaldi, Alex
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Bordetella BcrH1 and BcrH2 Are Specific Chaperones for the Pore‐Forming Complex
Microbiology and Immunology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bordetella has a type III secretion system that secretes virulence proteins crucial to the establishment of infection. The genes encoding components of the Bordetella type III secretion system are located in the bsc region on the chromosome. This region includes the bcrH1 and bcrH2 genes, which respectively encode the proteins BcrH1 and BcrH2.
Yuya Kishino +4 more
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