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VaccineLies: A Natural Language Resource for Learning to Recognize Misinformation about the COVID-19 and HPV Vaccines [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Billions of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, but many remain hesitant. Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines, propagating on social media, is believed to drive hesitancy towards vaccination. The ability to automatically recognize misinformation targeting vaccines on Twitter depends on the availability of data resources.
arxiv  

Validating child vaccination status in a demographic surveillance system using data from a clinical cohort study: evidence from rural South Africa [PDF]

, 2011
<p><b>Background:</b> Childhood vaccination coverage can be estimated from a range of sources. This study aims to validate vaccination data from a longitudinal population-based demographic surveillance system (DSS) against data from a ...
A Heywood, AA Parker, AJ Herbst, AK Koumare, B Zaba, BD Rice, BR Lee, C Tarwa, Demographic and Health Surveys, DT Dunn, E Bos, EP Armstrong, F Tanser, F Tanser, F Tanser, FQ Cui, HM Coovadia, J Ndirangu, James Ndirangu, M Hoque, M Otten, Marie-Louise Newell, N Siegfried, R Biellik, R Bland, RF Breiman, Ruth Bland, S Anand, T Bärnighausen, T Bärnighausen, T Bärnighausen, TC Mast, Till Bärnighausen, UNICEF, W Muhwava, WHO-UNICEF   +35 more
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Overview of Vaccines and Vaccination [PDF]

Molecular Biotechnology, 2005
Of the 80-plus known infectious agents pathogenic for humans, there are now more than 30 vaccines against 26 mainly viral and bacterial infections and these greatly minimize subsequent disease and prevent death after exposure to those agents. This article describes the nature of the vaccines, from live attenuated agents to subunits, their efficacy and ...
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Surveillance of Vaccination Coverage Among Adult Populations —United States, 2018

Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries, 2021
Problem/Condition Adults are at risk for illness, hospitalization, disability and, in some cases, death from vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly influenza and pneumococcal disease. CDC recommends vaccinations for adults on the basis of age, health
P. Lu, M. Hung, A. Srivastav, L. Grohskopf, Miwako Kobayashi, A. Harris, K. Dooling, L. Markowitz, A. Rodriguez-Lainz, W. Williams   +9 more
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Persistence of the immune response induced by BCG vaccination. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Although BCG vaccination is recommended in most countries of the world, little is known of the persistence of BCG-induced immune responses. As novel TB vaccines may be given to boost the immunity induced by neonatal BCG vaccination, evidence ...
Anne Ben-Smith, AR Bennett, B Combadiere, CE Palmer, Department of Health, Department of Health, GA Colditz, GF Black, GF Black, H Igari, H McShane, Hazel M Dockrell, I Sutherland, JA Sterne, Karonga Prevention Trial Group, Keith Branson, L Brandt, Maeve K Lalor, ML Barreto, NE Aronson, P Andersen, P Gorak-Stolinska, Patricia Gorak-Stolinska, Paul EM Fine, RE Weir, RE Weir, Rose Blitz, Rosemary E Weir, S Floyd, Sally Stenson, Sian Floyd   +30 more
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Safety and tolerability of Meningococcus B vaccine in patients with chronical medical conditions (CMC)

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2019
Background Invasive meningococcal disease is a serious global health threat in the world; in 2016, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported 3280 confirmed cases (including 304 deaths) of Invasive Meningococcal Diseases in Europe ...
L. Nicolosi, C. Rizzo, G. Castelli Gattinara, N. Mirante, E. Bellelli, C. Bianchini, V. Pansini, A. Villani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Vaccination Behavior on Disease Spreading Based on Complex Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Vaccination is an effective way to prevent and control the occurrence and epidemic of infectious diseases. However, many factors influence whether the residents decide to get vaccinated or not, such as the efficacy and side effects while individuals hope to obtain immunity through vaccination.
arxiv  

Hepatitis B vaccination coverage among Iranian children aged 15-26 months in 2006 [PDF]

, 2011
This study in 2006 estimated the hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination coverage in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the national and district levels in urban, rural and remote populations of 41 university health service areas.
Esteghamati, A., Gouya, M.M., Keshtkar, A.A., Nadjafi, L., Roshandel, G.H., Salaramoli, M., Yaghini, F.   +6 more
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HIV: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate? [PDF]

Nature, 1992
"Improbability of effective vaccination against human immunodeficiency virus ...", declares the title of a new paper by Dr Albert Sabin. But three immunologists see flaws in his argument.
Gordon Ada, Arno Müllbacher, Bob Blanden   +2 more
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Anti-SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain antibody evolution after mRNA vaccination

Nature, 2021
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection produces B cell responses that continue to evolve for at least a year. During that time, memory B cells express increasingly broad and potent antibodies that are resistant to ...
A. Cho, F. Muecksch, Dennis J. Schaefer-Babajew, Zijun Wang, Shlomo Finkin, C. Gaebler, Victor Ramos, M. Cipolla, Pilar Mendoza, Marianna Agudelo, Eva Bednarski, Justin DaSilva, I. Shimeliovich, Juan P Dizon, M. Daga, Katrina G. Millard, Martina Turroja, F. Schmidt, Fengwen Zhang, Tarek Ben Tanfous, M. Jankovic, Thiago Y Oliveria, A. Gazumyan, M. Caskey, P. Bieniasz, T. Hatziioannou, M. Nussenzweig   +26 more
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