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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, Garruto, Veronica, La Torre, Giuseppe, Mannocci, Alice, Scalingi, Stefania, Siclari, Marco   +5 more
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Evaluation of Whole-Cell and Acellular Pertussis Vaccines in the Context of Long-Term Herd Immunity

Vaccines, 2022
After the pertussis vaccine had been introduced in the 1940s and was shown to be very successful in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease, the possibility of improving both vaccine composition and vaccination schedules has ...
Ewa Szwejser-Zawislak, Mieszko M. Wilk, Piotr Piszczek, Justyna Krawczyk, Daria Wilczyńska, Daniela Hozbor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scaling-up vaccine production: implementation aspects of a biomass growth observer and controller [PDF]

, 2009
This study considers two aspects of the implementation of a biomass growth observer and specific growth rate controller in scale-up from small- to pilot-scale bioreactors towards a feasible bulk production process for whole-cell vaccine against whooping ...
Boxtel, A.J.B., van, IJssel, J., van den, Pol, L.A., van der, Soons, Z.I.T.A., Straten, G., van   +4 more
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Infants hospitalized for Bordetella pertussis infection commonly have respiratory viral coinfections [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between infants with B.
Agricola, Eleonora, Buttinelli, Gabriele, Campagna, Ilaria, Carsetti, R., Concato, C., DI MATTIA, Greta, Fedele, Giorgio, Ferretti, Beatrice, Frassanito, Antonella, Gesualdo, Francesco, Gonfiantini, Michaela Veronika, Marcellini, Valentina, Midulla, Fabio, Nenna, Raffaella, Nicolai, Ambra, Pandolfi, Elisabetta, Pierangeli, Alessandra, Russo, Luisa, Schiavoni, I., Stefanelli, P., Tozzi, A. E., Vennarucci, Valentina Spuri, Villani, Alberto   +22 more
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Brain damage following whooping cough vaccination : is it time to lay the myth to rest? [PDF]

, 1998
Whooping cough causes significant morbidity and mortality, especially in early infancy. Although an effective vaccine exists, vaccine uptake in Malta was previously disappointing due to the general public’s and the medical community’s doubts regarding ...
Busuttil, Ray, Grech, Victor E.
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Nonparametric Bounds and Sensitivity Analysis of Treatment Effects [PDF]

, 2014
This paper considers conducting inference about the effect of a treatment (or exposure) on an outcome of interest. In the ideal setting where treatment is assigned randomly, under certain assumptions the treatment effect is identifiable from the ...
Fine, Jason P., Gilbert, Peter B., Hudgens, Michael G., Richardson, Amy   +3 more
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Trends in hospitalizations for vaccine‐preventable diseases in the United States from 2014 to 2024

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Objectives Vaccination rates have declined in recent years, resulting in outbreaks of vaccine‐preventable diseases (VPDs) among children. We aimed to evaluate VPD hospitalization rates from 2014 to 2024 and to report associated trends in outcomes including intensive care utilization, mortality, readmissions, and costs.
Nathan M. Money, Erin Sullivan, Hannah Rector, Corrie E. McDaniel, Jessica L. Markham, Mersine A. Bryan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety and Immunogenicity of a Fully Liquid Vaccine Containing Five-Component Pertussis-Diphtheria-Tetanus-Inactivated Poliomyelitis-Haemophilus influenzae Type B Conjugate Vaccines Administered at Two, Four, Six and 18 Months of Age

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2007
OBJECTIVE: The safety, immunogenicity and lot consistency of a fully liquid, five-component acellular pertussis combination vaccine, comprised of diphteria, tetanus and acellular pertussis, inactivated polio vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP ...
Ronald Gold, Luis Barreto, Santiago Ferro, John Thippawong, Roland Guasparini, William Meekison, Margaret Russell, Elaine Mills, Dana Harrison, Pierre Lavigne   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new socioeconomic status measure for vaccine research in children using individual housing data: a population-based case-control study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background We recently developed HOUSES, an individual housing-based socioeconomic status (SES) measurement for health disparities research. We assessed whether HOUSES was associated with risk of pertussis and pertussis vaccine up-to-date status in ...
Rachel Hammer, Conrad Capili, Chung-Il Wi, Euijung Ryu, Jennifer Rand-Weaver, Young J. Juhn   +5 more
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Post vaccinal temporary sensorineural hearing loss [PDF]

, 2018
In our systematic research we identified four studies concerning the onset of neurological adverse events following vaccination and two excluding this association.
De Cesare, Donato Pompeo, De Marco, Federica, Di Folco, Francesco, Di Luca, Natale Mario, Massoni, Francesco, Ricci, Serafino, Sacco, Carmina, Tomei, Francesco, Tomei, Gianfranco   +8 more
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