This article, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, reports on a study that examined hospital discharges for intussusception among infants in the United States before and after the introduction of RotaTeq® and …

This article, published in Expert Review of Vaccines, summarizes the proceedings from the 7th International Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Symposium, which convened approximately 200 clinicians, scientists, and industry representatives from …

Guidance on addressing parents' concerns and educating them on the benefits of childhood immunization. From the Canadian Journal of CME.

This monograph, published in Vaccine, summarizes the present state of human papillomavirus vaccines and screening in the prevention of cervical cancer. It provides a number of articles covering epidemiological achievements, technical developments, …

This article, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, discusses a study in the United States that suggests that natural immunity to meningococcal disease is initiated, reinforced, and broadened by intermittent carriage of different …

This article, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, provides a reinvestigation of the immunogenicity in human beings of the meningococcal group A and C antigens based on previous studies of the molecular weights of these polysaccharides …

This article, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, describes a new method for the isolation of the meningococcal group-specific polysaccharides that make it possible to produce highly purified group A and group C polysaccharides.

This article, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, discusses a small-scale field trial that was carried out in United States military recruits to test the effect of immunization with meningococcal C polysaccharide upon the …

This article, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, reviews an earlier study of the age-specific incidence of meningococcal meningitis in the United States that found that the proportion of individuals with serum bactericidal …

This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, documents human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage after the demonstration projects conducted in India, Peru, Uganda, and Vietnam by PATH and national governments. …

This article, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, discusses a study where Rotarix® vaccine demonstrated efficacy against severe gastroenteritis caused by diverse circulating rotavirus types. These data add to evidence that the vaccine …

Currently, no explanation exists for the epidemic pattern of meningitis in the African meningitis belt, in spite of recent progress in disease surveillance. Such a model would be conducive to mathematically mapping vaccine strategies or predicting …

This article, published in the journal Vaccine, discusses a study of 42 Gambian children revaccinated at age five with meningococcal A/C polysaccharide vaccine (MPS) after receiving two doses of MPS in infancy and either MPS, meningococcal A/C …

Oral mucosal vaccines have great promise for generating protective immunity against intestinal infections for the benefit of large numbers of people especially young children. However, these vaccines are not equally immunogenic nor protective in …

Polysaccharide (PS)-protein conjugate vaccines, in contrast to purified PS vaccines, recruit CD4+-T-cell help and restore defective PS-specific humoral immunity in the immature host. Surprisingly, in the immunocompromised, aged host, anti-PS …

This article, published in Vaccine, discusses the risks and benefits of using vaccines in pregnant women to prevent maternal, fetal, and newborn disease. The author concludes that the potential for reducing the incidence of birth defects, …

This entire issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization is devoted to the topic of immunization safety, including vaccine quality, adverse events reporting, and safety of immunization injections.

Published in the journal Vaccine, this article aimed to determine the immunogenicity of the heptavalent pneumococcal protein conjugate (PNC) vaccine in poor Bangladeshi infants and to assess the effect of zinc supplementation on immune response to …

This article, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, discusses the methods and results of two studies conducted in Africa to evaluate a new meningococcal A conjugate vaccine. The conclusion of the studies is that the new vaccine has a …

This article, published in Vaccine, describes a study that compared the immunogenicity and safety of a single dose of a new meningococcal A conjugate vaccine (PsA-TT, MenAfriVac™, Serum Institute of India Ltd.) against the meningococcal group …

This article, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, details a randomized, observer-blind, age-stratified, parallel group study assessing two doses of an inactivated, split-virus 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccine in healthy …

To assess the impact of antivaccine movements that targeted pertussis whole-cell vaccines, the researchers compared pertussis incidence in countries where high coverage with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccines (DTP) was maintained with countries …

This article, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, reports on the results of a study to determine whether maternal vaccination during pregnancy was associated with a reduced risk of laboratory-confirmed influenza …

This article, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, investigates the impact of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine introduction in the United Kingdom on asymptomatic carriage of meningococci to establish whether …

Malawi has extreme poverty and high HIV prevalence. Following Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine introduction during 2002, this study evaluated vaccine impact by reviewing hospital surveillance data for acute bacterial …