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Vaccine effectiveness against mild and severe covid-19 in pregnant individuals and their infants in England: test negative case-control study

BMJ Medicine
Objective To estimate real world vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and hospital admission with the delta and omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in pregnant individuals, and to estimate the protection conferred by previous infection ...
Shamez Ladhani, Nick Andrews, Mary Ramsay, Julia Stowe, Jamie Lopez Bernal, Freja C M Kirsebom, Anna A Mensah, Helen Julia Campbell   +7 more
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Emergence of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 after using monovalent type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine in an outbreak response, Philippines

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022
Objective: In response to an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) type 2 in the Philippines in 2019–2020, several rounds of supplementary immunization activities using the monovalent type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) were ...
SweetC B Alipon, Yoshihiro Takashima, Tigran Avagyan, Varja Grabovac, Syeda Kanwal Aslam, Benjamin Bayutas, Josephine Logronio, Xiaojun Wang, Achyut Shrestha, Sukadeo Neupane, Maria Concepcion Roces, Lea Necitas Apostol, Nemia Sucaldito   +12 more
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The Impact of War on Vaccine Preventable Diseases [PDF]

Materia Socio Medica, 2014
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which lasted from 1992-1995, the functioning of all sectors was disturbed, including the health sector. The priority of the heath sector was treatment and less attention was paid to prevention, and this applies also to the Program of implementation of obligatory immunization, as one of the most important ...
Obradovic, Zarema, Balta, Snjezana, Obradovic, Amina, Mesic, Salih   +3 more
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Immunisation coverage in Australia corrected for under‐reporting to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
Objective: To assess the level of underreporting to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) and the resulting underestimation of national immunisation coverage using ACIR data, and to correct national immunisation estimates for under ...
Brynley P. Hull, Glenda L. Lawrence, C. Raina MacIntyre, Peter B. McIntyre   +3 more
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Parents’ and teachers’ attitudes to and experiences of the implementation of COVID-19 preventive measures in primary and secondary schools following reopening of schools in autumn 2020: a descriptive cross-sectional survey

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To assess implementation and ease of implementation of control measures in schools as reported by staff and parents.Design A descriptive cross-sectional survey.Setting Staff and parents/guardians of the 132 primary schools and 19 secondary ...
Shamez N Ladhani, Chris Bonell, Samuel E Jones, Meaghan Kall, Joanne Beckmann, Sinéad M Langan, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, Felicity Aiano, Joanna Garstang, Shazaad Ahmad, Andrew J Brent, Neisha Sundaram, James Hargreaves, Georgina Ireland, Marta Bertran, Annabel Powell, Bernadette E Brent, Frances Baawuah, Ifeanychukwu Okike   +18 more
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Vaccination strategies for the prevention of meningococcal disease [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Routine prophylactic vaccination and mass vaccination strategies have been used to control both endemic and epidemic disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis globally. This review discusses real-world examples of these vaccination strategies, their implementation, and outcomes of these efforts, with the overall goal of providing insights on how to ...
Scott Vuocolo, Paul Balmer, William C. Gruber, Kathrin U. Jansen, Annaliesa S. Anderson, John L. Perez, Laura J. York   +6 more
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The Role of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Ataxia‐Telangiectasia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ataxia‐telangiectasia (A‐T) is a DNA repair disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency, and cancer predisposition. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is an established therapy in related disorders such as Fanconi anemia (FA) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), but its role in A‐T is unclear.
Laila Alkhouli, Seth Rotz, Masatoshi Takagi, Richa Sharma   +3 more
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Genomic characterization of Haemophilus influenzae: a focus on the capsule locus

BMC Genomics, 2019
Background Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) can cause invasive diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia, or sepsis. Typeable Hi includes six serotypes (a through f), each expressing a unique capsular polysaccharide.
Caelin C. Potts, Nadav Topaz, Lorraine D. Rodriguez-Rivera, Fang Hu, How-Yi Chang, Melissa J. Whaley, Susanna Schmink, Adam C. Retchless, Alexander Chen, Edward Ramos, Gregory H. Doho, Xin Wang   +11 more
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Addressing Determinants of Immunization Inequities Requires Objective Tools to Devise Local Solutions

Vaccines, 2023
Universal immunization substantially reduces morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. In recent years, routine immunization coverage has varied considerably among countries across the WHO European Region, and among different populations
Siddhartha Sankar Datta, Federico Martinón-Torres, Nino Berdzuli, Niyazi Cakmak, Michael Edelstein, Simon Cottrell, Mark Muscat   +6 more
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
wiley   +1 more source