Clinical experience with the inactivated hepatitis A vaccine, Avaxim 80U Pediatric.

abstract：:Interview by Jenaid Rees, Commissioning Editor Jeffrey Schlom obtained his PhD from Rutgers University (NJ, USA). After obtaining his PhD, he worked at Columbia University (NY, USA) before moving in 1973 to the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (MD, USA). Since then he has served as the Chief of...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Schlom J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leishmaniases are a group of diseases caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which affects millions of people worldwide. The leishmaniases are transmitted to the vertebrate hosts by phlebotomine sand flies. In this review, we focus on clinical aspects of the leishmaniases and on the immune response against the...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Brodskyn C,de Oliveira CI,Barral A,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Antigenic changes in influenza virus occur gradually, owing to mutations (antigenic drift), and abruptly, owing to reassortment among subtypes (antigenic shift). Availability of strain-matched vaccines often lags behind these changes, resulting in a shortfall in public health. In animal models, cross-protection by vac...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Epstein SL,Price GE

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Incredibly, vaccines currently capture only about 2% of the world's pharmaceutical market, despite the fact that they can be credited with saving more lives and preventing more suffering and disability than any other form of medical activity, with the possible exception of the provision of clean water. ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Andre FE

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Introduction: Controlling the preventable infectious diseases is the main goal of vaccination. Among the vaccines, combined vaccines are of great importance for their social, public health, and economic values. It is stated that the combined vaccines are as efficient and safe as the monovalent vaccines. However, a con...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Tafreshi SH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, considerable data has been provided to support the role of the immune system in atherosclerosis. These reports came from studies involving knockout murine models of atherosclerosis and human subjects. The notion that inflammatory mechanisms are operable in atherogenesis has fueled a series of studies ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Harats D,George J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the immune system can clearly recognize cancer cells, there is little evidence that it does so to any effective consequence in patients with advanced breast cancer. The possibility of effective control of micrometastatic disease remains but is unproven. The challenge for the clinician is to find ways to enhan...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Cameron DA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for an affordable, safe and effective HIV vaccine has never been greater. As the immunogenicity of all the vaccine vectors being evaluated currently in human populations is limited, novel vaccine strategies are needed to stimulate the innate immune system, to generate high levels of neutralizing antibodies an...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Joseph J,Saubi N,Pezzat E,Gatell JM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum-containing adjuvants are an important component of many vaccines because they safely potentiate the immune response. The structure and properties of aluminum hydroxide adjuvant, aluminum phosphate adjuvant and alum-precipitated adjuvants are presented in this review. The major antigen adsorption mechanisms, e...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Hem SL,Hogenesch H

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated memory responses and antibody persistence to diphtheria-toxoid, tetanus-toxoid, whole-cell-pertussis (DTwP), and Hepatitis-B vaccines in HIV-unexposed, HIV-exposed-uninfected and HIV-infected children previously randomized to initiate time-limited ART at 6-10 weeks (ART-Immed) or when clinically...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Simani OE,Izu A,Nunes MC,Violari A,Cotton MF,Van Niekerk N,Adrian PV,Madhi SA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent years great attention has been directed to the discovery of novel antigens from Bacillus anthracis, because of the potential of its spores in the development of weapons for mass destruction. Substantial effort has been directed to the identification and immunochemical evaluation of glycans that might be us...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Adamo R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global polio eradication is closer than ever. Replacement of the live attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) by inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) is recommended to achieve complete eradication. Limited global production capacity and relatively high IPV costs compared to OPV spur the need for improved polio vaccin...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kraan H,van der Stel W,Kersten G,Amorij JP

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Introduction Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has quickly spread around the world. Areas covered This review will discuss the available immunologic and clinical evidence to support the benefit of the influenza, pneumococcal, and tuberculosis vaccines...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Sultana J,Mazzaglia G,Luxi N,Cancellieri A,Capuano A,Ferrajolo C,de Waure C,Ferlazzo G,Trifirò G

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：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：:As pregnant women are considered a high-risk group for severe influenza illness, current recommendations advise vaccination of all pregnant women with inactivated influenza vaccine. Nevertheless, rates of maternal influenza vaccination have historically been low, possibly reflecting ongoing concerns about vaccine safe...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Fell DB,Dodds L,MacDonald NE,Allen VM,McNeil S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Fluzone® High-Dose (IIV3-HD) is a trivalent, inactivated, split-virus influenza vaccine indicated for use in older adults (≥65 years of age). It contains 60 µg hemagglutinin of each influenza strain, which is four times the hemagglutinin content of standard-dose influenza vaccines, including Fluzone (IIV3-...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Robertson CA,DiazGranados CA,Decker MD,Chit A,Mercer M,Greenberg DP

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents have the highest rates of meningococcal carriage and transmission. Interrupting the adolescent habitat in order to reduce carriage and transmission within adolescents and to other age groups could help to control meningococcal disease at a population level. Compared to immunization strategies restricted to...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Vetter V,Baxter R,Denizer G,Sáfadi MA,Silfverdal SA,Vyse A,Borrow R

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:The success of vaccine regimens against viral pathogens hinges on the elicitation of protective responses. Hypervariable pathogens such as HIV avoid neutralization by masking protective epitopes with more immunogenic decoys. The identification of protective, conserved epitopes is crucial for future vaccine candidate d...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kramer VG,Byrareddy SN

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus is the most significant arboviral pathogen worldwide with nearly 400 million infections annually and half the global population at risk of disease. Despite this tremendous public health burden, there are no licensed treatments or vaccines to prevent dengue in humans. Results from clinical trials of leadin...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Widman DG,Baric RS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Due to overcome the hardness of the vaccine design, computational vaccinology is emerging widely. Prediction of T cell and B cell epitopes, antigen processing analysis, antigenicity analysis, population coverage, conservancy analysis, allergenicity assessment, toxicity prediction, and protein-peptide docki...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Kardani K,Bolhassani A,Namvar A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of humans with Bacillus anthracis are an issue with respect to the biothreat both to civilians and military personnel, infections of individuals by infected livestock in endemic regions and, recently, infections of intravenous drug users injecting anthrax-contaminated heroin. Existing vaccination regimens a...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Altmann DM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenoviruses have emerged as promising viral vectors for CD8(+) T-cell vaccines. Our studies have indicated that unlike most acute infections, the CD8(+) T-cell memory population elicited by recombinant human adenovirus serotype 5 (rHuAd5) displays a dominant effector memory phenotype. Persistent, low-leve...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Bassett JD,Swift SL,Bramson JL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The favorable graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect that occurs after stem cell transplantation suggests that T cells can eradicate leukemia blasts. T cells specifically recognize peptides and exert an antileukemia effect. Several leukemia-associated antigens (LAAs) have been found to be overexpressed in malignant cells ...

journal_title：Expert review of vaccines

authors： Casalegno-Garduño R,Schmitt A,Schmitt M

更新日期：2011-06-01 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