ELISA as a possible alternative to the neutralization test for evaluating the immune response to poliovirus vaccines.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Streptococcus pneumoniae causes mucosal and invasive diseases with high morbidity and mortality. Introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) into routine infant immunization programs worldwide resulted in serotype 19A becoming a leading cause of the remaining pneumococcal disease bur...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Isturiz R,Sings HL,Hilton B,Arguedas A,Reinert RR,Jodar L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is attractive and promising as a novel viral vector for the expression of foreign genes of interest because it possesses unique properties. In particular, its excellent safety profile and the availability of versatile vector technologies have frequently made MVA the vac...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Rimmelzwaan GF,Sutter G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lassa virus (LASV) is the most prevalent arenavirus in West Africa and is responsible for several hundred thousand infections and thousands of deaths annually. The sizeable disease burden, numerous imported cases of Lassa fever (LF) and the possibility that LASV can be used as an agent of biological warfare make a str...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Lukashevich IS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis A and B are two of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccination for Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) is recommended for those at risk of contracting HAV and/or HBV through their occupation, travel or lifestyle. OBJECTIVE:To describe the vaccine efficacy, immunoge...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Bakker M,Bunge EM,Marano C,de Ridder M,De Moerlooze L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:To describe the impact following a 1-dose Varicella vaccination schedule introduced in Costa Rica in September 2007. Areas covered: This is a retrospective review using epidemiologic surveillance national databases of varicella cases and hospitalizations, period 2000-2015. We analyzed age-related varicella...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Avila-Aguero ML,Ulloa-Gutierrez R,Camacho-Badilla K,Soriano-Fallas A,Arroba-Tijerino R,Morice-Trejos A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intranasal influenza vaccines are expected to confer protection among vaccine recipients by successful induction of mucosal immune response in the upper respiratory tract. Though only live attenuated influenza virus vaccines (LAIVs) are licensed and available for intranasal use in humans today, intranasal ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Sano K,Ainai A,Suzuki T,Hasegawa H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjuvants are essential components of most clinically used vaccines. This is because the majority of nonliving vaccines are relatively poor inducers of adaptive immunity unless effective adjuvants are co-administered. Aluminum salts (alum) have been used as adjuvants with great success for almost a century and have be...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Schijns VE,Lavelle EC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current influenza vaccines are primarily targeted to induce immunity to the influenza virus strain-specific hemagglutinin antigen and are not effective in controlling outbreaks of new pandemic viruses. An approach for developing universal vaccines is to present highly conserved antigenic epitopes in an immunogenic con...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kang SM,Kim MC,Compans RW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine administration is the second leading cause of febrile seizures (FS). FS occurrence in children is a serious concern because it leads to public apprehension of vaccinations. This review discusses the clinical implications of FS, its potential link to vaccinations and its impact on official recommendations for v...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Principi N,Esposito S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of meningococcal disease in Europe since 1945 has shown fluctuations in incidence, serogroup distribution and case-fatality rate. Outbreaks and epidemics driven by the introduction of new virulent strains into Europe have occurred unpredictably. Epidemics associated with serogroups A and B have occurr...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kriz P,Wieffer H,Holl K,Rosenlund M,Budhia S,Vyse A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of Yersinia pestis bacilli causes pneumonic plague, a rapidly progressing and exceptionally virulent disease. Extensively antibiotic-resistant Y. pestis strains exist and we currently lack a safe and effective pneumonic plague vaccine. These facts raise concern that Y. pestis may be exploited as a bioweapon...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Smiley ST

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This section deals with how new knowledge of the development of cellular immunity in the neonatal period informs vaccine development and reviews the immune responses of the most vulnerable group of newborns, those born prematurely, to vaccines. It describes how the development of future vaccine strategies relies on a ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Prescott S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have purified a major capsid protein, VP1 of Simian virus 40 (SV40), using recombinant baculovirus and have established the method of in vitro reassembly of SV40 virus-like particles (SV40-VLPs) from VP1-pentamers. In this reassembly, SV40-VLPs can encapsulate approximately 5 kb exogenous DNA shielded by h...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kawano M,Matsui M,Handa H

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current treatments for lung cancer are far from optimal. Several immunotherapeutic strategies involving vaccines incorporating different tumor-associated antigens to induce immune responses against tumors are being tested in clinical trials internationally. Although small, benefits have indeed been observed from the e...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Simmons O,Magee M,Nemunaitis J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge to HIV vaccine development is the integration of HIV proviral DNA into the host genome upon infection. Therefore, an optimal vaccine should block infection within hours of viral exposure, providing 'sterilizing immunity' at mucosal sites and in blood via potent, broadly reactive antibody to the HIV env...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Malkevitch NV,Robert-Guroff M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, is an organism of concern as a potential biowarfare agent. Progress towards understanding the molecular basis of pathogenicity has been hampered by a lack of tools with which to manipulate the pathogen. However, the availability of genome sequence data for a ra...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Oyston PC,Griffiths R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a dominant component of the Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane, is a strong activator of the innate immune system, and thereby an important determinant in the adaptive immune response following bacterial infection. This adjuvant activity can be harnessed following immunization with bacter...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Zariri A,van der Ley P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle is highly suspected to be orally transmitted to humans through contaminated food, causing new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. However, no prophylactic procedures against these diseases, such as vaccines, in particular those stimulating mucosal protective immunity, have bee...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Sakaguchi S,Arakawa T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been a successful tool in the protection against many infectious diseases, and recent advances in biotechnology have created new techniques and strategies to produce safe and efficacious vaccines for human use. However, developing a protective vaccine against malaria has been a challenge. In this artic...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Coban C,Horii T,Akira S,Ishii KJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza inflicts significant global mortality and morbidity that can be combated by effective immunization. However, the protective efficacy of current vaccines is limited by both the significant antigenic diversity of the viral hemagglutinin protein and the capacity for rapid antigenic change. This necessitates glo...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Wheatley AK,Kent SJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have identified an association between Pandemrix(TM), an AS03 adjuvanted pandemic influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, and narcolepsy, a rare and under-diagnosed sleep disorder with a median onset-to-diagnosis interval of ten years. This paper reviews potential sources of bias in published studies and aims to pr...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Wijnans L,Dodd C,de Ridder M,Romio S,Weibel D,Overeem S,Lammers GJ,Bonhoeffer J,Black S,Sturkenboom M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WHO has recently issued updated recommendations for the programmatic use of new-generation typhoid vaccines in high-risk areas of countries where typhoid fever is still endemic. Countries have subsequently been instructed to discuss how these recommendations can be implemented and to develop plans for targeted typ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： DeRoeck D,Ochiai RL,Yang J,Anh DD,Alag V,Clemens JD

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns and infants are highly susceptible to infectious diseases, resulting in high mortality and morbidity, particularly in resource-poor settings. Many vaccines require several booster doses, resulting in an extensive vaccine schedule, and yet there is still inadequate protection from some of these diseases. This ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Flanagan KL,Burl S,Lohman-Payne BL,Plebanski M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mass vaccination of the entire population of an endemic area would be the most cost-effective tool to diminish Leishmania burden, an effective vaccine is not yet commercially available. Practically, vaccines have failed to achieve the required level of protection, possibly owing to the lack of an appropriate ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Doroud D,Rafati S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the molecular farming area, transient expression approaches for pharmaceutical proteins production, mainly recombinant monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, were developed almost two decades ago and, to date, these systems basically depend on Agrobacterium-mediated delivery and virus expression machinery. We survey h...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Komarova TV,Baschieri S,Donini M,Marusic C,Benvenuto E,Dorokhov YL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) on the natural history of otitis media (OM) has been studied recently. In a high-risk population, PCV7 significantly reduced the risk of recurrent, bilateral or multiple tympanic membrane perforation, as well as the risk of chronic suppurative OM at 9...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Nascimento-Carvalho CM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenovirus vaccines show great promise for generating protective immunity against infectious agents and tumors. Our studies have identified several interesting biological features of the adenovirus vector that influence the T-cell response. Notably, we have demonstrated that following immunization with ade...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Yang TC,Millar JB,Grinshtein N,Bassett J,Finn J,Bramson JL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDS) are increasingly used in clinical practice for a variety of conditions. Due to concerns surrounding persistence of drug levels and resulting immunosuppression, current case reports recommend against live vaccine administration in the first year of l...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Berkhout A,Clark JE,Wen SC

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The impact of PCV7 and PCV13 on pneumococcal infections in Kuwait is not known. Therefore we evaluated the impact on pneumococcal serotype distribution and penicillin-non-susceptibility in invasive infections in Kuwait. METHODS:Children < 2 y were given PCV7 from Aug 2006 to Jul 2010 (period I), and PCV13 f...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Mokaddas E,Albert MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of advanced prostate cancer, specifically metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), remains a therapeutic challenge. Sipuleucel-T (Provenge; APC8015) was approved by the FDA in 2010 for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic mCRPC patients, and it remains the only FDA-approv...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Wei XX,Fong L,Small EJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00