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The Intriguing History of Gloves and Their Application to Surgery

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Gloves were first worn to protect against cold and injury. In surgery, their purpose now is to reduce surgical site infection and blood‐borne transmission of disease. Surprisingly, their adoption in surgery as a routine has been remarkably recent and had a bizarre origin.
Spencer W. Beasley
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We should be prepared to smallpox re-emergence

Вопросы вирусологии, 2019
The review contains a brief analysis of the results of investigations conducted during 40 years after smallpox eradication and directed to study genomic organization and evolution of variola virus (VARV) and development of modern diagnostics, vaccines ...
S. N. Shchelkunov, G. A. Shchelkunova
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Vaccinations During Pregnancy Protect the Mother–Infant Dyad and Are Generally Safe

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Vaccination in pregnancy has a critical impact on mothers, foetuses and infants. The aim of this paper was to summarise key points presented by experts attending the 12th Maria Delivoria‐Papadopoulos Perinatal Symposium in March 2025 and further expand and update them.
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner, Despina D. Briana, Gian Carlo Di Renzo   +2 more
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Ethical Considerations Regarding the Vaccination of Children—The Power Dynamics Between Doctors and Parents

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund, Ingemar Engström, Anders Castor   +2 more
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Third-generation smallpox vaccines induce low-level cross-protecting neutralizing antibodies against Monkeypox virus in laboratory workers

Heliyon
Due to the discontinuation of routine smallpox vaccination after its eradication in 1980, a large part of the human population remains naïve against smallpox and other members of the orthopoxvirus genus.
Damian Jandrasits, Roland Züst, Denise Siegrist, Olivier B. Engler, Benjamin Weber, Kristina M. Schmidt, Hulda R. Jonsdottir   +6 more
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Are We Prepared in Case of a Possible Smallpox-Like Disease Emergence?

Viruses, 2017
Smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated, through a concerted vaccination campaign led by the World Health Organization. Since its eradication, routine vaccination against smallpox has ceased, leaving the world population susceptible to ...
Victoria A. Olson, Sergei N. Shchelkunov
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Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Incomplete Vaccination in Swedish Two‐Year‐Olds—A Nationwide, Population‐Based Cohort Study

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To analyse the association between specific socioeconomic measures and the risk of incomplete vaccination for diphtheria‐tetanus‐pertussis (DTP) and measles‐containing vaccine (MCV) in Swedish two‐year‐olds. Methods This nationwide, population‐based cohort study included 227 457 children born in Sweden during 2014–2015.
Cecilia Chrapkowska Almqvist, Ilias Galanis, Tiia Lepp, Malin Kark, Sharon Kühlmann‐Berenzon, Anna Nilsson   +5 more
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A Global Perspective of Childhood Vaccinations: Past, Present, and Future—From Smallpox to mRNA

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Childhood immunisation is one of the most successful public health interventions in history, preventing millions of deaths and substantially reducing global child mortality. This mini‐review summarises the historical development of childhood vaccines, the role of global coordination in expanding immunisation coverage, and the innovations that ...
Tobias Alfvén, Tania Reza, Alieu Sowe
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Analysis of aerobiological studies with orthopoxviruses by U.S. Department of Defense

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии
Discontinuation of vaccination after the completion of Smallpox global eradication program led to a sharp decrease in the level of collective immunity not only to smallpox but also to other orthopoxvirus infections.
Gennady G. Onishenko, Igor A. Kirillov, Sergey V. Borisevich, Tatiana E. Sizikova, Victor T. Krotkov   +4 more
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The Results of Re-certification of Reference Standard Sample Used for the Examination of Quality Smallpox Vaccines

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2016
The article presents the results of research quality of drugs for the prevention of smallpox during the period from 2007 to 2015 years, where the reference standard uses industry standard of activity, specificity (identification) and necrotic activity of
A. V. Muhacheva, V. V. Perekrest, A. A. Movsesyants, K. A. Sarkisyan, A. U. Butyrskiy, O. V. Fadeikina, R. A. Volkova, D. V. Shvedov, V. A. Shevtsov   +8 more
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