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Histopathology of vaccine‐preventable diseases

Histopathology, 2016
The widespread use of vaccines has been one of the most important medical advances in the last century, saving trillions of dollars and millions of lives. Despite local eradication of some infections, travellers returning from affected areas may cause outbreaks through reintroduction of pathogens to individuals who are unable to receive vaccines for ...
Isaac H, Solomon, Danny A, Milner
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Vaccines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease

Vascular Pharmacology, 2006
Atherosclerosis, especially coronary heart disease (CHD), remains a most significant global public health problem. Highly effective LDL-lowering therapies have gained widespread adoption in the United States and throughout the developed world, but therapeutic options for raising low HDL, a key independent risk factor for CHD, remain limited.
Una S, Ryan, Charles W, Rittershaus
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Their Prophylaxis

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2012
Global uptake of new vaccines shapes the epidemiology of infections, and in turn this changing epidemiology guides vaccine development. Once introduced, surveillance and monitoring of the impact of vaccines on disease and adverse events is vital for further development.
Joanna S, Herman, David R, Hill
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The prevention of Lyme disease with vaccine

Vaccine, 2001
Lyme disease is a potentially serious and debilitating infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi that is endemic in North America, Europe, and Asia. Personal protective and environmental measures have not significantly impacted its increasing incidence. An adjuvanted recombinant vaccine (LYMErix) has been approved in the United States for the prevention
G A, Poland, R M, Jacobson
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Pregnancy

American Journal of Perinatology, 2012
In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified the reduction in vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) as one of the greatest achievements of the previous decade. During that time, several new pediatric and adult vaccines were introduced including rotavirus, quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate, herpes zoster, human papillomavirus ...
Geeta K, Swamy, Rebecca, Garcia-Putnam
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

2020
Vaccination can be accepted as the main strategy in preventing infections, but vaccination of cancer patients is a complex approach. The diversity of immunodeficiencies in different hematological disorders, and the change of immunosuppression during the course of the illness, lower vaccine responses, difficulty in conducting clinical trials with ...
Hamdi Akan, Tony Bruns, Mathias W. Pletz
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Older Adults

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2023
Older adults are at an increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases partly because of physiologic changes in the immune and other body systems related to age and/or accumulating comorbidities that increase the vulnerability to infections and decrease the response to vaccines.
Maha, Al-Jabri, Christian, Rosero, Elie A, Saade   +2 more
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Varicella: A Vaccine Preventable Disease?

Journal of Infection, 2002
To present a review of varicella disease, vaccine development and implementation of universal vaccination, discuss common questions about the vaccine and the epidemiology of the disease since licensure of the varicella vaccine.Review the incidence of complications from varicella disease prior to vaccine licensure, safety of the varicella vaccine from ...
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Vaccine Preventable Disease on Campus

Journal of American College Health, 1984
Abstract Vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) have declined as a cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. From more than 500,000 cases of measles reported annually in the prevaccine era, there were only 1,436 cases reported in 1983 (38% on college campuses); from more than 12.5 million reported cases of acquired rubella and 20,000 cases of ...
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and the Vaccines That Prevent Them

2017
Vaccines are essential to ensure the health of populations. It is important to understand what vaccines are available and when they should be administered in order to most effectively reduce the transmission of communicable diseases. Currently the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), through the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Heidi L. Diez, Alexandra Hayward, Kristi VanDerKolk   +2 more
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