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Community perceptions of a malaria vaccine in the Kintampo districts of Ghana. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa despite tools currently available for its control. Making malaria vaccine available for routine use will be a major hallmark, but its acceptance by community ...
A Bingham, A Dodoo, A Launiala, A Olotu, AK Rowe, AS Jegede, C Wongsrichanalai, CA Baume, CA de Quadros, Dan-Bright S Dzorgbo, DB Dery, DI Ojakaa, E Klinkenberg, F Nuwaha, FN Binka, G GSS, Kojo A Senah, KP Asante, Kwaku P Asante, Lawrence G Febir, PW Chung, RW Snow, S Owusu-Agyei, S Owusu-Agyei, S Owusu-Agyei, Seth Owusu-Agyei, ST Agnandji, ST Agnandji, TE Nkya, Timothy S Letsa, WHO   +30 more
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries

Nature Network Boston, 2021
Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in lower-income countries, where large-scale vaccination is ...
Julio S Solís Arce, Shana S. Warren, N. Meriggi, Alexandra Scacco, Nina McMurry, M. Voors, Georgiy Syunyaev, A. Malik, Samya Aboutajdine, Opeyemi Adeojo, Deborah Anigo, A. Armand, S. Asad, Martin Atyera, Britta Augsburg, M. Awasthi, Gloria Eden Ayesiga, Antonella Bancalari, Martina Björkman Nyqvist, E. Borisova, C. M. Bosancianu, Magarita Rosa Cabra García, A. Cheema, Elliott Collins, Filippo Cuccaro, A. Farooqi, Tatheer Fatima, M. Fracchia, Mery Len Galindo Soria, Andrea Guariso, A. Hasanain, Sofía Jaramillo, Sellu Kallon, Anthony Kamwesigye, Arjun Kharel, S. Kreps, Madison Levine, Rebecca Littman, M. Malik, Gisele Manirabaruta, Jean Léodomir Habarimana Mfura, Fatoma Momoh, Alberto Mucauque, Imamo Mussa, J. Nsabimana, Isaac Obara, María Juliana Otálora, Béchir Ouédraogo, Touba Bakary Pare, Melina R. Platas, Laura Polanco, Javaeria Qureshi, Mariam Raheem, V. Ramakrishna, Ismail Rendrá, T. Shah, Sarene Eyla Shaked, Jacob N. Shapiro, J. Svensson, Ahsan Tariq, Achille Mignondo Tchibozo, Hamid Ali Tiwana, Bhartendu Trivedi, Corey Vernot, Pedro C. Vicente, Laurin B. Weissinger, basit. zafar, Baobao Zhang, Dean S. Karlan, M. Callen, Matthieu Teachout, M. Humphreys, A. Mobarak, S. Omer   +73 more
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis sulfurtransferase SseA is activated by its neighboring gene product Rv3284

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge and new therapeutic targets are required. Here, we characterized SseA, a sulfurtransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis involved in macrophage infection, and its interaction with the newly identified protein SufEMtb that activates SseA enzymatic activity.
Giulia Di Napoli, Alex Fissore, Edoardo Salladini, Eleonora Raccuia, Simonetta Oliaro‐Bosso, Alessia Ruggiero, Rita Berisio, Milagros Medina, Adrian Velazquez‐Campoy, Salvatore Adinolfi, Mauro Marengo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occurrence of human infection with Salmonella Typhi in sub-Saharan Africa

Scientific Data
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, results in over 1.2 million cases and 29 thousand deaths annually from sub-Saharan Africa. Combating this disease requires various intervention approaches, such as typhoid conjugate vaccines and
Jong-Hoon Kim, Prerana Parajulee, Thuy Tien Nguyen, Shreeya Wasunkar, Vittal Mogasale, Se Eun Park, Ursula Panzner, Ondari D. Mogeni, Justin Im, Florian Marks   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paperless registration during survey enumerations and large oral cholera mass vaccination in Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
PROBLEM: Field trials require extensive data preparation and complex logistics. The use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) can bypass many of the traditional steps that are necessary in a paper-based data entry system.
Mohammad Ali, Jaqueline L Deen, Ahmed Khatib, Godwin Enwere, Lorenz von Seidlein, Rita Reyburn, Said Mohammed Ali, Na Yoon Chang, Valérie Perroud, Frédérique Marodon, Abdul A Saleh, R Hashim, Anna Lena Lopez, James Beard, Benedikt N Ley, Kamala Thriemer, Mahesh K Puri, Binod Sah, Mohamed Saleh Jiddawi, John D Clemens   +19 more
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Calibration of a serum reference standard for Group B streptococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine development using surface plasmon resonance

npj Vaccines, 2023
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Development of a maternal vaccine to protect newborns through placentally transferred antibody is considered feasible based on the well-established relationship
Alexandre Esadze, Christopher D. Grube, Sabine Wellnitz, Suddham Singh, Ha H. Nguyen, Michelle A. Gaylord, Aiping Zhu, Alexey Gribenko, Charles Y. Tan, Annaliesa S. Anderson, Raphael Simon   +10 more
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Serology as a Tool to Assess Infectious Disease Landscapes and Guide Public Health Policy

Pathogens, 2022
Understanding the local burden and epidemiology of infectious diseases is crucial to guide public health policy and prioritize interventions. Typically, infectious disease surveillance relies on capturing clinical cases within a healthcare system ...
Andrea H. Haselbeck, Justin Im, Kristi Prifti, Florian Marks, Marianne Holm, Raphaël M. Zellweger   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of the immune responses induced by native versus recombinant versions of the ASP-based vaccine against the bovine intestinal parasite Cooperia oncophora [PDF]

, 2018
The protective capacities of a native double-domain activation-associated secreted protein (ndd-ASP)-based vaccine against the cattle intestinal nematode Cooperia oncophora has previously been demonstrated.
Borloo, Jimmy, Casaert, Stijn, Claerebout, Edwin, Geldhof, Peter, González Hernández, Ana, Leclercq, Georges, Peelaers, Iris   +6 more
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Vaccines

, 2013
Since vaccination was documented by Edward Jenner in 1798, it has become the most successful means of preventing infectious diseases, saving millions of lives every year. However, application of vaccines is currently not limited to the prevention of infectious diseases.
Jiskoot, W., Kersten, G.F.A., Mastrobattista, E.   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Vaccines, Vaccination, and Vaccinology [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
Although the demonstration in 1796 by Edward Jenner that vaccinia virus could protect against smallpox was epochal, he was following the path opened by the ancients who had used the smallpox virus itself in the practice of variolation. The work of Louis Pasteur on chicken cholera opened the way to vaccine development in the laboratory.
openaire   +3 more sources