An evaluation of measles and smallpox vaccines simultaneously administered.

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

Developing new smallpox vaccines.

New stockpiles of smallpox vaccine are required as a contingency for protecting civilian and military personnel against deliberate dissemination of smallpox virus by terrorists or unfriendly governments. The smallpox vaccine in the current stockpile consists of a live animal poxvirus (Vaccinia virus [VACV]) that was grown on the skin of calves. Because of potential issues with controlling this ...

Infant immunization with pneumococcal CRM197 vaccines: effect of saccharide size on immunogenicity and interactions with simultaneously administered vaccines.

Six pentavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (Pn-CRM197) were evaluated among 400 infants. The vaccines differed in saccharide chain length (oligosaccharide [OS] or polysaccharide [PS]) and saccharide quantity (0.5, 2, or 5 microg). Subjects were randomized into groups 1-6 (Pn-CRM197 recipients) or 7 (controls) for immunization at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. Pn-CRM197 were well tolerated and ...

Evaluation of Live Attenuated Measles Vaccines Prepared in Human Diploid Cells for Reimmunization

A comparative study of two live measles vaccines in Iran