Pneumococcal conjugate vaccination for older adults: Reply letter to Hollingsworth et al.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic and health inequalities remain a huge problem in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite substantial efforts at ensuring universal access to vaccines, many children remain under-vaccinated in the country. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with incomplete vaccination ...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Ndwandwe D,Nnaji CA,Mashunye T,Uthman OA,Wiysonge CS

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old woman under maintenance hemodialysis was admitted to our hospital with fever and dyspnea that had developed two days after the second vaccination with the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23). She had received the first vaccination with PPV23 five years earlier without any complications....

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Kikuchi R,Iwai Y,Watanabe Y,Nakamura H,Aoshiba K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical scientific societies have the core mission of producing, pooling and disseminating solid and updated scientific information. We report the successful experience of the partnership of four national Medical Scientific Societies active in Italy in producing scientific advice on vaccines and vaccination. In partic...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Bonanni P,Chiamenti G,Conforti G,Maio T,Odone A,Russo R,Scotti S,Signorelli C,Villani A,Scientific Board of “Lifetime Immunization Schedule”.

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune memory after hepatitis B vaccination among adults is still under investigation. In this study, adults who had normal and high antibody response to the primary series of hepatitis B vaccination (HepB) were followed up at 5 years after the primary immunization. A booster dose was given to those who had low hepati...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Wu W,Lv J,Liu J,Yan B,Feng Y,Xu A,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV sequence diversity and the propensity of eliciting immunodominant responses targeting inessential variable regions are hurdles in the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. We developed a DNA vaccine comprising conserved elements (CE) of SIV p27Gag and HIV-1 Env and found that priming vaccination with CE DNA is...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Hu X,Lu Z,Valentin A,Rosati M,Broderick KE,Sardesai NY,Marx PA,Mullins JI,Pavlakis GN,Felber BK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some health care providers have adopted the policy of refusing to accept into their practices families who refuse to vaccinate their children according to the standard vaccine schedule. While the frustration that drives these policies is understandable, the practice of refusing to see these families is misguided. Such...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Diekema DS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although catch-up campaigns (CCs) at the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) may accelerate their impact, supply constraints may limit their benefit if the need for additional PCV doses results in introduction delay. We studied the impact of PCV13 introduction with and without CC in Nha Trang, Vietn...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Le Polain De Waroux O,Edmunds WJ,Takahashi K,Ariyoshi K,Mulholland EK,Goldblatt D,Choi YH,Anh DD,Yoshida LM,Flasche S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal vaccine that provides long-lasting protection from both epidemic and pandemic influenza viruses remains the "holy grail" of influenza vaccine research. Though virus neutralization assays are the current benchmark of measuring vaccine effectiveness, it is clear that Fc-receptor functions can drastically imp...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Jegaskanda S,Vanderven HA,Wheatley AK,Kent SJ

更新日期：2017-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Thanks to the screening method, we estimated among target groups the 2010/2011 field vaccine effectiveness (FVE) against laboratory confirmed influenza cases seen in general practice. We also compared the values of FVE estimations obtained by using three sources of the population vaccination coverage (VC) based on thr...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Falchi A,Souty C,Grisoni ML,Mosnier A,Hanslik T,Daviaud I,Varesi L,Kerneis S,Carrat F,Blanchon T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Compared with trivalent influenza vaccines, quadrivalent influenza vaccines are expected to provide wider protection against influenza B virus infections. We developed a novel quadrivalent subunit influenza vaccine which was distinct from the influenza vaccines available on the market in production process...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Ye H,Jia S,Zhang Y,Li J,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health literacy skills are cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health'. Patients use these literacy skills to critically analyze information; to allow them to exert greater contr...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Rowlands G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease is a devastating chronic disease without adequate therapy. More than 10 years ago, it was demonstrated in transgenic mouse models that vaccination may be a novel, disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer. Subsequent clinical development has been a roller-coaster with some positive and many negative ne...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Fettelschoss A,Zabel F,Bachmann MF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHO defines adolescence age between 10 to 19 years. In India, there are 243 million adolescents which constitute 21 per cent of the total population. The global burden of disease in adolescents (2011) reports that the total number of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide among adolescents were 230 million w...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Verma R,Khanna P,Chawla S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus (RV) infection is the primary cause for childhood gastroenteritis worldwide. In Korea, RV infection is most common among children less than 5 years of age. This post-licensure study was conducted to further evaluate the RV vaccine (RIX4414) to provide additional local clinical data to the Korean Food and Dru...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Kim JS,Bae CW,Lee KY,Park MS,Choi YY,Kim KN,Kim JD,Park WS,Sin JB,Kim EA,Lee SG,Kim CS,Cha SH,Hong YJ,Shin SM,Shim GH,Choi KM,Yang JW,Liu A,Suryakiran PV,Han HH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liguria, an administrative region in northern Italy characterized by a decade of high PCV coverage in paediatric age group, has issued new PCV13 recommendations for free active immunization in adults with risk factors and subjects aged ≥ 70 years old. Main aims of this study are: (1) a descriptive epidemiology of the ...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Ansaldi F,Orsi A,Trucchi C,De Florentiis D,Ceravolo A,Coppelli M,Schiaffino S,Turello V,Rosselli R,Carloni R,Icardi G,Study Group LP,Canepa P,Sticchi L,Zanetti R,Cremonesi I,Brasesco P,Moscatelli P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual influenza vaccination is recommended as a preventive measure for all patients with asthma since asthma exacerbations in children and adults are associated to viral infections including influenza. There is concern about the adequate immune response in asthmatics with ICS treatment. The production of antibodies t...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Velasco-Medina AA,García-León ML,Velázquez-Sámano G,Wong-Chew RM

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner in which providers respond to parental concerns about the recommended childhood vaccination schedule is an area of increasing interest in pediatrics and medical ethics. Like many aspects of vaccination policy and practice, evaluating the reactions of providers to parental vaccine hesitancy--including the po...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Schwartz JL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Italy was one of the first countries in the world to introduce a routine vaccination program against HBV for newborns and 12-y-old children. From a clinical point of view, such strategy was clearly successful. The objective of our study was to verify whether, at 20 y from its implementation, hepatitis B universal vacc...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Boccalini S,Taddei C,Ceccherini V,Bechini A,Levi M,Bartolozzi D,Bonanni P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic outbreaks of influenza type A viruses have resulted in numerous fatalities around the globe. Since the conventional influenza vaccines (CIV) provide less than 20% protection for individuals with weak immune system, it has been considered that broadly cross-neutralizing antibodies may provide a better protecti...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Mendoza M,Ballesteros A,Qiu Q,Pow Sang L,Shashikumar S,Casares S,Brumeanu TD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported higher anti-HPV-16 and -18 immune responses induced by HPV-16/18 vaccine compared with HPV-6/11/16/18 vaccine at Month 7 (one month after completion of full vaccination series) in women aged 18-45 y in an observer-blind study NCT00423046; the differences of immune response magnitudes were mainta...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Einstein MH,Levin MJ,Chatterjee A,Chakhtoura N,Takacs P,Catteau G,Dessy FJ,Moris P,Lin L,Struyf F,Dubin G,HPV-010 Study Group.

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main challenges in early clinical research with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) live-attenuated vaccines (LAVs) is to assess immunogenicity in healthy adults. Healthy adults will have preexisting levels of serum neutralizing antibodies that could prematurely neutralize the LAV and underestimate the potent...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Van Der Plas JL,Verdijk P,Van Brummelen EMJ,Jeeninga RE,Roestenberg M,Burggraaf J,Kamerling IMC

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Three phase II randomized trials evaluated the safety/immunogenicity of two formulations of live-attenuated tetravalent dengue virus (TDEN) vaccine in dengue-endemic (Puerto Rico, Thailand) and non-endemic (US) regions (NCT00350337/NCT00370682/NCT00468858). We describe cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses; safety and ...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Moris P,Bauer KM,Currier JR,Friberg H,Eckels KH,Esquilin IO,Gibbons RV,Innis BL,Jarman RG,Simasathien S,Sun P,Thomas SJ,Watanaveeradej V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza and pertussis prevention in young infants requires immunizing pregnant women and all caregivers (cocooning). We evaluated the knowledge and attitude of postpartum women about these two recommendations. A survey of predominantly Hispanic, underinsured, medically underserved postpartum women in Houston, Texas ...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Beel ER,Rench MA,Montesinos DP,Mayes B,Healy CM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocompromising conditions increase the risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Vaccine uptake in patients with these conditions may be low in part because of concerns about decreased immunogenicity and safety in these high-risk groups. We conducted a literature search to identify publications describing antib...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Chilson E,Scott DA,Schmoele-Thoma B,Watson W,Moran MM,Isturiz R

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization can contribute to a dramatic reduction in number of vaccine-preventable diseases among children. The aim of this study is to investigate mothers' awareness about child vaccines and vaccination in Jordan. This study was a community-based, cross-sectional study that was performed at public places in Irbid C...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Masadeh MM,Alzoubi KH,Al-Azzam SI,Al-Agedi HS,Abu Rashid BE,Mukattash TL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both our research and that published by Sticchi et al. on immunological memory against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in health-care workers (HCWs) vaccinated as infants or adolescents confirm that in those testing negative after the primary course, one additional (fourth) booster dose is able to elicit an anti-HBs response ...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Bechini A,Bonanni P,Grazzini M,Paolini D,Arcangeli G,Mucci N,Bini C,Tiscione E,Zanella B,Boccalini S

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-vaccination movement has existed as long as the vaccines themselves, but its mode of action and social influences evolved over time. Such attitude with no doubt has negative impact on vaccination rates and eradication of infectious diseases. In this study, we used an online survey to examine vaccination attitudes...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Zarobkiewicz MK,Zimecka A,Zuzak T,Cieślak D,Roliński J,Grywalska E

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In late September 2016, the Americas became the first region in the world to have eliminated endemic transmission of measles virus. Several other countries have also verified measles elimination, and countries in all six World Health Organization regions have adopted measles elimination goals. The public health strate...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Gastañaduy PA,Banerjee E,DeBolt C,Bravo-Alcántara P,Samad SA,Pastor D,Rota PA,Patel M,Crowcroft NS,Durrheim DN

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunotherapy can be an effective adjuvant treatment for multiple myeloma (MM), as demonstrated by induction of durable remissions after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. However, anti-myeloma immunity is often hampered by suppressive mechanisms in the tumor micro-environment resulting in relapse or disea...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Roeven MW,Hobo W,Schaap N,Dolstra H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight months after the mass immunization campaign of November 2015 against measles and rubella in the southeast of Iran, in order to evaluate the sero-immunity level of the people living in the mentioned region, a serosurvey study was performed. Using a multi-stage probability proportional to size cluster sampling, th...

journal_title：Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

authors： Izadi S,Zahraei SM,Mokhtari-Azad T

更新日期：2018-06-03 00:00:00