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BMC Infectious Diseases

Vaccines

Section edited by Susanna Esposito

This section aims to publish studies looking at the development and application of vaccines, including efficacy, safety, population coverage and barriers to vaccination.

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  1. Content type: Research article

    A widely prevalent disease, toxoplasmosis poses serious health threats to both humans and animals; therefore, development of an ideal DNA vaccine against Toxoplasma gondii is needed eagerly. The purpose of the pr...

    Authors: Pengxia Song, Shenyi He, Aihua Zhou, Gang Lv, Jingjing Guo, Jian Zhou, Yali Han, Huaiyu Zhou, Zhen Hao and Hua Cong

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:19

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    In Sri Lanka pertussis continues to circulate in the community and cases among adolescents and adults have been reported despite 95% coverage of the four dose pertussis vaccination during early childhood. Wani...

    Authors: Shamithra Sigera, Jennifer Perera, Jeyanthakumar Rasarathinam, Dulani Samaranayake and Dileepa Ediriweera

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:729

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    In order to control the spread of rubella and reduce the risk for congenital rubella syndrome, an additional rubella vaccination program was set up for all secondary school students since 2008 in Zhejiang, China.

    Authors: Hanqing He, Rui Yan, Xuewen Tang, Yang Zhou, Xuan Deng and Shuyun Xie

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:723

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    In many industrialized countries routine vaccination with the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV-23) is recommended to prevent pneumococcal disease in the elderly. However, vaccine-induced imm...

    Authors: Cornelius Remschmidt, Thomas Harder, Ole Wichmann, Christian Bogdan and Gerhard Falkenhorst

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:711

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    Rotavirus infection causes considerable disease burden of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) hospitalization and death among children less than 5 years in China. Although two rotavirus vaccines (Rotarix and RotaTeq) ...

    Authors: Shuhui Cui, Ruoyan Gai Tobe, Xiuting Mo, Xiaoyan Liu, Lingzhong Xu and Shixue Li

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:677

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  6. Content type: Research article

    The demographic composition and the frequency and nature of social contacts may affect the spread of influenza virus in a population, resulting in distinct age-dependent immunity patterns. As demography and so...

    Authors: Ruprecht Schmidt-Ott, Markus Schwehm and Martin Eichner

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:646

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  7. Content type: Research article

    An evidence-based, step-by-step guide, the 4 Pillars™ Practice Transformation Program, was the foundation of an intervention to increase adult immunizations in primary care and was tested in a randomized contr...

    Authors: Chyongchiou J. Lin, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Valory N. Pavlik, Anthony E. Brown, Song Zhang, Jonathan M. Raviotta, Krissy K. Moehling, Mary Hawk, Edmund M. Ricci, Donald B. Middleton, Suchita Patel, Jeannette E. South-Paul and Richard K. Zimmerman

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:623

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  8. Content type: Research article

    Dengue virus (DENV) and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) belong to the genus Flavivirus, and infection with a virus within this genus induces antibodies that are cross-reactive to other flaviviruses. Particularl...

    Authors: Yuka Saito, Meng Ling Moi, Nozomi Takeshita, Chang-Kweng Lim, Hajime Shiba, Kuniaki Hosono, Masayuki Saijo, Ichiro Kurane and Tomohiko Takasaki

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:578

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are responsible for a significant disease burden amongst Māori and Pacific populations in New Zealand (NZ). However, contemporary data are lacking ...

    Authors: Deborah A Williamson, Pierre R Smeesters, Andrew C Steer, Julie Morgan, Mark Davies, Philip Carter, Arlo Upton, Stephen Y.C. Tong, John Fraser and Nicole J Moreland

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:561

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  10. Content type: Research article

    In the absence of an adult vaccination register, coverage estimates for influenza and pneumococcal vaccination come from surveys and other data sources.

    Authors: Amalie Dyda, Surendra Karki, Andrew Hayen, C. Raina MacIntyre, Robert Menzies, Emily Banks, John M. Kaldor and Bette Liu

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:515

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  11. Content type: Research article

    The protective capacities of antibodies induced with Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines can be directly assessed in vitro with a Hib-specific serum bactericidal assay (SBA). However, the conventional SB...

    Authors: Han Wool Kim, Kyung-Hyo Kim, JiHye Kim and Moon H. Nahm

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:473

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  12. Content type: Research article

    The effect of previous natural pandemic H1N1 (H1N1 pdm09) influenza infection on the immunogenicity to subsequent inactivated influenza vaccination in children has not been well studied. We aimed to evaluate t...

    Authors: Eun Kyeong Kang, Byung Wook Eun, Nam Hee Kim, Jung Sub Lim, Jun Ah Lee and Dong Ho Kim

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:438

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    Like other countries in Asia, measles-rubella (MR) vaccine coverage in Bangladesh is suboptimal whereas 90–95 % coverage is needed for elimination of these diseases. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (...

    Authors: Md Jasim Uddin, Gourab Adhikary, Md Wazed Ali, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Md Shamsuzzaman, Chris Odell, Lauren Hashiguchi, Stephen S. Lim and Nurul Alam

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:411

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  14. Content type: Research article

    Despite the successes of routine national childhood vaccination programmes, measles remains a public health concern. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how patterns of parental attitudes are linked to...

    Authors: Carine Weiss, Daniel Schröpfer and Sonja Merten

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:400

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  15. Content type: Research article

    The effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) on invasive pneumococcal disease is frequently reported, but the impact on upper respiratory tract infections in a clinical setting is less documented. Our a...

    Authors: Nils Littorin, Jonas Ahl, Fabian Uddén, Fredrik Resman and Kristian Riesbeck

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:407

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Scotland introduced PCV7 and PCV13 immunisation in young children in 2006 and 2010 respectively. One recent study from the United States reported a decrease in hospitalisation rates for all-cause pneumonia mos...

    Authors: Harish Nair, Arun Thor Watts, Linda J. Williams, Saad B. Omer, Colin R. Simpson, Lorna J. Willocks, J. Claire Cameron and Harry Campbell

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:390

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  17. Content type: Case report

    Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) and immunodeficient long-term polio excretors constitute a significant public health burden and are a major concern for the WHO global polio eradication endgame.

    Authors: Thomas Foiadelli, Salvatore Savasta, Andrea Battistone, Majlinda Kota, Carolina Passera, Stefano Fiore, Silvia Bino, Concetta Amato, Alessandro Lozza, Gian Luigi Marseglia and Lucia Fiore

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:277

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  18. Content type: Research article

    The endgame for polio eradication includes coordinated global cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), starting with the cessation of vaccine containing OPV serotype 2 (OPV2) by switching all trivalent OPV ...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Lee M. Hampton and Kimberly M. Thompson

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:237

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  19. Content type: Research article

    The endgame for polio eradication involves coordinated global cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) with cessation of serotype 2 OPV (OPV2 cessation) implemented in late April and early May 2016 and cessa...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Lee M. Hampton and Kimberly M. Thompson

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:231

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Migrant travellers who return to their country of origin to visit family and friends (VFR) are less likely to seek travel-related medical care and are less likely to adhere to recommended medications and trave...

    Authors: Holly Seale, Rajneesh Kaur, Abela Mahimbo, C. Raina MacIntyre, Nicholas Zwar, Mitchell Smith, Heather Worth and Anita E Heywood

    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:213

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