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Immunization strategies targeting newly arrived migrants in Non-EU countries of the mediterranean basin and black sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: The World Health Organization recommends that host countries ensure appropriate vaccinations to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. However, information on vaccination strategies targeting migrants in host countries is limited. Methods: In
Declich, Silvia   +7 more
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Vaccines for prophylaxis of viral infections in patients with hematological malignancies. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Viral infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in patients with hematological malignancies. It remains uncertain whether viral vaccinations in these patients are supported by good evidence.
Chan, GC   +4 more
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Between East and West: polio vaccination across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In 1950s Hungary, with an economy and infrastructure still devastated from World War II and facing further hardships, thousands of children became permanently disabled and many died in the severe polio epidemic that shook the globe.
Vargha, Dora
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Human enterovirus 71 and hand, foot and mouth disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is generally a benign febrile exanthematous childhood disease caused by human enteroviruses. The route of transmission is postulated to be faeco-oral in developing areas but attributed more to respiratory droplet in ...
Lau, SKP, Wong, SSY, Yip, CCY, Yuen, KY
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Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animal Testing in the Quality Control of Human Vaccines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Vaccines are recognised as a highly cost effective tool for preventing infectious diseases. They are derived from biological sources and due to the complexity of composition and heterogeneity of products, vaccine lots undergo legally required quality ...
HALDER MARIA ELISABETH
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Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses: current state of knowledge

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Within the past 4 years, poliomyelitis outbreaks associated with circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) have occurred in Hispaniola (2000-01), the Philippines (2001), and Madagascar (2001-02).
Kew Olen M.   +6 more
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Human Circulating Antibody-Producing B Cell as a Predictive Measure of Mucosal Immunity to Poliovirus.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundThe "gold standard" for assessing mucosal immunity after vaccination with poliovirus vaccines consists in measuring virus excretion in stool after challenge with oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).
Ayan Dey   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immunodeficiency-associated Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 3 in Infant, South Africa, 2011

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
Patients with primary immunodeficiency are prone to persistently excrete Sabin-like virus after administration of live-attenuated oral polio vaccine and have an increased risk for vaccine-derived paralytic polio.
Nicksy Gumede   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polio eradication in Ghana: past, present, and future

open access: yesFrontiers in Tropical Diseases
IntroductionGhana joined the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1996 to interrupt wild poliovirus transmission in the country. This was a collaborative effort by the Ghana Health Service (Disease Surveillance Department and the Expanded Program on ...
John Kofi Odoom   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Certification of the industry reference standard for the specific activity of «BiVac polio» - live attenuated bivalent oral polio vaccine type 1 and 3

open access: yesБиопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
The standardization and control of «BiVac polio» (live attenuated bivalent oral polio vaccine type 1 and 3) developed by M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, called for ...
E. V. Karpova   +6 more
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