Laboratory Diagnosis of Mumps in a Partially Immunized Population: The Nova Scotia Experience by TF Hatchette, R Davidson, S Clay, J Pettipas, J LeBlanc, S Sarwal, M Smieja, KR Forward

“…BACKGROUND: In 2007, Atlantic Canada experienced a large outbreak of mumps predominately in university students who had received a single dose of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. The present study describes the performance characteristics of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on buccal and urine specimens and immunoglobulin M (IgM) serology in this partially immune population.…”
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Serum Sickness following Tetanus Toxoid Injection by Saja alhawal, Manar Aldarwish, Zainab Almoosa

“…In this case, we describe a case of 6-year-old girl who developed a rash and arthralgia after being vaccinated with tetanus toxoid injection after a cut wound.…”
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Pulmonary aspergillosis in US Veterans with COVID-19: a nationwide, retrospective cohort study by Kaitlin Swinnerton, Nathanael R. Fillmore, Ikwo Oboho, Janet Grubber, Mary Brophy, Nhan V Do, Paul A Monach, Westyn Branch-Elliman

“…Selected clinical characteristics included age >70, receipt of immune-compromising drugs, hematologic malignancy, chronic respiratory disease, vaccination status, and vaccine era. Multivariate logistic regression was used to estimate the independent effects of these variables via adjusted odds ratios (aOR). …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, And Practices of The Educated Women of North India Toward Cervical Cancer by Ishita Miglani, Urvashi Gandhi, Poonam Laul

“…Girls and women aged 15 years and more studying in educational institutions or those who have completed their graduation were asked to fill out the questionnaire if willing to do so anonymously. 824 respondents filled out the online survey. 75% of the respondents had good knowledge about pap smear and HPV vaccination. Only 80 respondents (9.7%) were vaccinated against HPV. 255 (30.9%) had been screened with a pap smear at least once in their lifetime. …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF INFECTION CONTROL AMONG DENTAL PRACTITIONERS IN ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL,RIPHAH by Ufaq Rao, Abdul Razaq Khan, Zarnab Rizwan, Ghina Rizwan, Syed Hamza Zia

“…The questionnaire had 21 questions related to vaccination status, barrier techniques infection control practices and awareness. …”
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Immune thrombocytopenia in infants: a retrospective study with comparison to toddlers by Anselm Chi-wai Lee

“…Fewer infants developed chronic ITP (1/22 vs. 9/30, P = 0.032), but more infants had a history of vaccination in the preceding 6 weeks prior to diagnosis of ITP (13/22 vs. 1/30, P < 0.001). …”
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Applied Comparison of Meta-analysis Techniques by Li Wang, Colin Lewis-Beck, Elyse Fritschel, Erdem Baser, Onur Baser

“…**Results:** All three techniques showed a statistically significant effects from the vaccination. However, once covariates were added, efficacy diminished. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Brunei Darussalam by Wei Shan Ang, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Yong Sze Ong, Yatinesh Kumari, Long Chiau Ming, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…The key success factors are effective pandemic containment measures, public communication strategy, and enhanced surveillance mechanisms supported by the mass testing program and contact tracing. A national vaccination strategy ensuring adequate vaccine distribution and effective administration has been rolled out to render lasting protection against the infection. …”
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Evolutionary Pattern of Asian HIV-1 Subtype B from 1990 to 2007: In Silico Analysis Based on Envelop Protein by Sobia Kanwal, Tariq Mahmood

“…HIV-1 envelop gene is a major target for vaccine development. Envelop protein and its V3 loop is shown to be important determinant of HIV-1 pathogenecity. …”
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IMMUNOBIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF LUMPY SKIN DISEASE VIRUS STRAIN LSD CATTLE/DAGESTAN/2015 by S. V. Kononova, O. P. Byadovskaya, A. V. Kononov, I. N. Shumilova, E. E. Artyukhova

“…It is type specific and with its immunobiological characteristics meets the standards and requirements set before virus strains used for vaccine and diagnostic production.…”
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Saturated treatments and measles resurgence episodes in South Africa: A possible linkage by Deborah Lacitignola

“…We consider the case of measles in South Africa to show that an high vaccination coverage may be not enough - alone - to ensure measles eradication. …”
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Measles Outbreak among Previously Immunized Adult Healthcare Workers, China, 2015 by Zhengyi Zhang, Yuan Zhao, Lili Yang, Changhong Lu, Ying Meng, Xiaoli Guan, Hongjin An, Meizhong Zhang, Wenqin Guo, Bo Shang, Jing Yu

“…Measles is caused by measles virus belonging to genus Morbillivirus of the family Paramyxoviridae. Vaccination has played a critical role in controlling measles infection worldwide. …”
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CELLULAR IMMUNITY AND CYTOKINE PROFILE IN PRE-FARROW AND LACTATING SOWS by A. G. Shakhov, S. V. Shabunin, L. Yu. Sashnina, M. I. Adodina, M. Yu. Zhejnes, K. V. Tarakanova, K. O. Kopytina

“…The cytokine profile of the sows was specified by the recovered numbers of interleukin-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α and γ-interferon, decreased level of interleukin-2 and interleukin-4 that regulate cellular and humoral immunity, respectively as well as their subsequent increase (in particular, interleukin-2) following animal immunization against parvoviral infection and erysipelas on day 7 post farrowing (Parvoruvax vaccine, Merial, France) and against classical swine fever on day 14 post farrowing (culture dry virus-vaccine LK-VNIVIPFIT). …”
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Outer Membrane Proteome Analysis of Indian Strain of Pasteurella multocida Serotype B:2 by MALDI-TOF/MS Analysis by A. Prasannavadhana, Santosh Kumar, Prasad Thomas, Laxmi Narayan Sarangi, Santosh Kumar Gupta, Adyasha Priyadarshini, Viswas Konasagara Nagaleekar, Vijendra Pal Singh

“…Further functional in vivo study of the proteins identified are required to explore the utility of these proteins in developing diagnostics and vaccine against HS.…”
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The disappearing COVID-Naïve Population and comparative Roche vs. Abbott Test sensitivity: evidence from antibody seroprevalence in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin by Lorenzo Franchi, Vladimir Atanasov, Mark Stake, Garrett Bates, Kristen Osinski, John R Meurer, Bernard Black

“…Thus, by mid-2022, almost all persons were no longer COVID-naïve, defined as vaccination, infection (often without symptoms), or both. …”
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Peptide-Based Vaccinology: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Target Hypervariable Viruses through the Fine Characterization of Protective Epitopes Recognized by Monoclon... by Matteo Castelli, Francesca Cappelletti, Roberta Antonia Diotti, Giuseppe Sautto, Elena Criscuolo, Matteo Dal Peraro, Nicola Clementi

“…Here, we review several strategies based on experimental techniques alone or addressed by in silico analysis that are frequently used to predict immunogens to be included in novel epitope-based vaccine approaches. We will list the main strategies aiming to design a new vaccine preparation conferring the protection of a neutralizing mAb combined with an effective cell-mediated response.…”
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A New Hope in Immunotherapy for Malignant Gliomas: Adoptive T Cell Transfer Therapy by Dong-Sup Chung, Hye-Jin Shin, Yong-Kil Hong

“…Although recent clinical results from vaccine strategy for malignant gliomas are encouraging, these trials have some limitations, particularly their failure to expand tumor antigen-specific T cells reproducibly and effectively. …”
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Epidemic Modeling and Flattening the Infection Curve in Social Networks by Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian, Soraya Doustmohamadian, Najmeh Doostmohammadian, Azam Doustmohammadian, Houman Zarrabi, Hamid R. Rabiee

“…Flattening the infection curve implies slowing down the spread of the disease and reducing the infection rate via social-distancing, isolation (quarantine) and vaccination. The nan-pharmaceutical methods are a much simpler and efficient way to control the spread of epidemic and infection rate. …”
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Immunostimulatory Effects of Guanine-Quadruplex Topologies as Scaffolds for CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides by Soumitra Pathak, Nguyen Bui Thao Le, Taiji Oyama, Yusuke Odahara, Atsuya Momotake, Kazunori Ikebukuro, Chiho Kataoka-Hamai, Chiaki Yoshikawa, Kohsaku Kawakami, Yoshihisa Kaizuka, Tomohiko Yamazaki

“…Synthetic cytosine-phosphate-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) are promising candidates for vaccine adjuvants, because they activate immune responses through the Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) pathway. …”
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Temporal Variations among Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Serotypes in Children and Adults in Germany (1992–2008) by Matthias Imöhl, Ralf René Reinert, Mark van der Linden

“…The temporal variations in serotype distribution have to be kept in mind when interpreting vaccine coverages reported in epidemiological studies.…”
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