Research Note: Establishment of vector system harboring duck RNA polymerase I promoter for avian influenza virus by Yunyueng Jang, Yoon-Gi Baek, Yu-Na Lee, Ra Mi Cha, Yun-Chan Choi, Min-Ji Park, Youn-Jeong Lee, Eun-Kyoung Lee

“…Reverse genetics (RG) systems are extensively utilized to investigate the characteristics of influenza viruses and develop vaccines, predominantly relying on human RNA polymerase I (pol I). …”
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Risk and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease among Education Workers: A Review by Philippe De Wals, Pierre Deshaies, Gaston De Serres, Bernard Duval, Lise Goulet, Bernard Pouliot, Sylvie Ricard, Maurice Poulin

“…Immunization of education workers at the beginning of their employment, using serogroup C glycoconjugate vaccine or a combined A, C, W-135, and Y conjugate vaccine (still under development), could reduce IMD risk, but the cost effectiveness of this measure should be evaluated. …”
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Construction and Characterization of Adenovirus Vectors Encoding Aspartate-β-Hydroxylase to Preliminary Application in Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yujiao Zhou, Feifei Liu, Chengmin Li, Guo Shi, Xiaolei Xu, Xue Luo, Yuanling Zhang, Jingjie Fu, Aizhong Zeng, Limin Chen

“…Secondly, bone marrow-derived DCs were infected by Ad-AAH-IRES2-EGFP to yield AAH-DC vaccines. Matured DCs were demonstrated by increased expression of CD11c, CD80, and MHC-II costimulatory molecules. …”
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Optimizing a low-temperature preservation technique for Bacillus anthracis strains by A. P. Rodionov, E. A. Artemeva, L. A. Melnikova, D. M. Sahibullina

“…The currently used anthrax vaccines are produced using various strains of Bacillus anthracis. …”
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Challenges faced by community health volunteers in offering sexual and reproductive health care services to young women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Khwisero and Nairobi in Keny... by Mariam F. Yusuf, Mariam F. Yusuf, Mariam F. Yusuf, Washington Onyango-Ouma, Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde, Cynthia Khamala Wangamati

“…The challenges included distrust by the community as a result of the interaction between anti-COVID-19 measures and other past and present health interventions such as vaccines for other diseases, insufficient personal protective gear and equipment (PPEs), limited human and financial resources to address community needs, limited and poor training on response to misinformation that led to vaccine hesitancy, and mental strain from stigma and burnout.ConclusionDuring pandemics, governments should provide adequate personal protective gear and financial and human resources for CHVs' work as they deliver SRH services to the community under risky conditions. …”
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Immunological efficiency of Haemophilus influenzae type b polyribosyl ribitol phosphate combined with detoxified lipooligosaccharide in a rabbit model by Amin Arsang, Seyed Davar Siadat, Masoumeh Saberpour, Farshad Nojoomi

“… Background and Objectives: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) could cause severe life-threatening infections in children. Combine vaccines have reduced invasive diseases, but disease management is still necessary. …”
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Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Intratumoral Injection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma by Lawrence A. Shirley, Laura K. Aguilar, Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, Mark Bloomston, Jon P. Walker

“…We then describe our technique in detail, including our experience injecting the AdV-tk adenoviral vector to create an in situ vaccine effect.…”
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Modified vaccinia virus Ankara triggers type I IFN production in murine conventional dendritic cells via a cGAS/STING-mediated cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway. by Peihong Dai, Weiyi Wang, Hua Cao, Francesca Avogadri, Lianpan Dai, Ingo Drexler, Johanna A Joyce, Xiao-Dong Li, Zhijian Chen, Taha Merghoub, Stewart Shuman, Liang Deng

“…Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is an attenuated poxvirus that has been engineered as a vaccine against infectious agents and cancers. Our goal is to understand how MVA modulates innate immunity in dendritic cells (DCs), which can provide insights to vaccine design. …”
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Risk and protective factors for ASF in domestic pigs and wild boar in the EU, and mitigation measures for managing the disease in wild boar by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Anette Ella Boklund, Karl Ståhl, Miguel Ángel Miranda Chueca, Tomasz Podgórski, Timothée Vergne, José Cortiñas Abrahantes, Eleonora Cattaneo, Sofie Dhollander, Alexandra Papanikolaou, Stefania Tampach, Lina Mur

“…However, the development of an oral GnRH vaccine for wild boar still requires substantial additional work.…”
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Relationship between RSV-hospitalized children and meteorological factors: a time series analysis from 2017 to 2023 by Shuying Wang, Yifan Wang, Yingxue Zou, Cheng-liang Yin

“…Furthermore, continued research into vaccines and therapeutic drugs remains indispensable for augmenting public health outcomes.…”
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Nanobody screening and machine learning guided identification of cross-variant anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing heavy-chain only antibodies. by Peter R McIlroy, Le Thanh Mai Pham, Thomas Sheffield, Maxwell A Stefan, Christine E Thatcher, James Jaryenneh, Jennifer L Schwedler, Anupama Sinha, Christopher A Sumner, Iris K A Jones, Stephen Won, Ryan C Bruneau, Dina R Weilhammer, Zhuoming Liu, Sean Whelan, Oscar A Negrete, Kenneth L Sale, Brooke Harmon

“…Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to persist, demonstrating the risks posed by emerging infectious diseases to national security, public health, and the economy. Development of new vaccines and antibodies for emerging viral threats requires substantial resources and time, and traditional development platforms for vaccines and antibodies are often too slow to combat continuously evolving immunological escape variants, reducing their efficacy over time. …”
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Attitudes of Final-Year Medical Students in Jordan Towards Volunteering During a Pandemic by Alassaf A, Gharaibeh L, Alkubaisi F, Alkhawaldeh M, Dababseh S, Odeh R

“…Around 60% of students were willing to participate in future voluntary work that does not involve patients infected with COVID-19, while 29.3% of them were willing to do so depending on the type of pandemic and the availability of vaccines. There were 86.1% of students who thought that participating in voluntary work involving infected patients during pandemics, should be optional; where 10.1% suggested that it should be compulsory if vaccines were available.Conclusion: The majority of medical students did not volunteer during the COVID 19 pandemic. …”
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Calreticulin as an Adjuvant In Vivo to Promote Dendritic Cell Maturation and Enhance Antigen-Specific T Lymphocyte Responses against Melanoma by Zheng Gong, Ming Chen, Jie Miao, Chao-Jie Han, Qiao Zhong, Fang-Yuan Gong, Xiao-Ming Gao

“…Our results demonstrate that CRT/39-272 can be used as a potential new adjuvant for tumor vaccines, and this finding may be useful in tumor vaccine development.…”
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A multi-omics spatial framework for host-microbiome dissection within the intestinal tissue microenvironment by Bokai Zhu, Yunhao Bai, Yao Yu Yeo, Xiaowei Lu, Xavier Rovira-Clavé, Han Chen, Jason Yeung, Dingani Nkosi, Jonathan Glickman, Antonio Delgado-Gonzalez, Georg K. Gerber, Mike Angelo, Alex K. Shalek, Garry P. Nolan, Sizun Jiang

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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>These findings demonstrate differences in dengue severity by serotype and immune status and emphasize the critical need for a dengue vaccine with balanced effectiveness against all four serotypes, particularly as existing vaccines show variable efficacy by serotype and serostatus.…”
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A Rare Case of Large-Vessel Vasculitis following Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy and Pegfilgrastim by Joseph Mort, Shipra Maheshwari, Nayanika Basu, Patrick Dillon, Kevin Brady, Harry Bear, Trish Millard

“…We also extend the possibility of large-vessel vasculitis development in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine due to shared ingredients found in both the vaccine and pegfilgrastim. …”
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The incidence, mortality, and survival rate of colorectal cancer in Xiamen, China, from 2011 to 2020 by Lingxian Qiu, Wenting Luo, Youlan Chen, Zhinan Guo, Jiali Quan, Jiahuang Chi, Yingying Guan, Yue Huang, Yilan Lin

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Association of Major Histocompatibility Complex Polymorphism With Acute Phase Response in Broiler Chicken by Afra Vatankhah, Gholamreza Nikbakht Brujeni, Atefeh Esmailnejad

“…The antibody response to the Newcastle disease vaccine (NDV) was also measured to assess humoral mediated immunity. …”
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Torovirus infection in animals: a review by V. А. Mischenko, A. V. Mischenko, T. B. Nikeshina, Yu. V. Brovko, А. I. Kushlubaeva

“…Despite the high activity and field effectiveness of vaccines against rotavirus and coronavirus infections and viral diarrhea, massive neonatal calf diarrheas causing significant economic losses were registered in a number of large-scale livestock farms. …”
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Impact of non-pharmacological interventions on the first wave of COVID-19 in Portugal 2020 by Dinis B. Loyens, Constantino Caetano, Carlos Matias-Dias

“…Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic caused over 7 million global deaths. Without vaccines during the first wave, governments implemented nonpharmacological interventions (NPIs) such as lockdowns, school closures, and travel restrictions. …”
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