Immunisation against immune serum

Immunisation of Adult Sheep Against Brucella Infection

Immunisation against meningococcus B.

www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 7, 2013 857 in 2000 under circumstances of uncertainty about efficacy and low (but in that case rising) disease incidence. A decision to introduce the Novartis vaccine, which is not really a meningococcus B but actually a broader, generic meningococcal vaccine, and to give it to adolescents and young adults who have the highest carriage rates could have been ...

Immunisation against Whooping Cough

lives and visits are often infrequent. To this extent, therefore, I see the community hospital in populations in excess of 40 000 being of primary significance to the community in respect of acute diagnostic and surgical services at an appropriate level, and the geriatric and long-stay element as a part of the overall picture rather than the predominant feature. In populations less than this fi...

Protection against pertussis by immunisation.

Review of all 126 children admitted to the communicable diseases unit with whooping cough during the epidemic in 1978 showed that two had received two doses of triple vaccine and only one had had full primary immunisation against the disease. None of these three children suffered complications of the disease. Of the 123 children who had not been immunised against pertussis, however, 66 had had ...

Genetic Immunisation by Liver Stage Antigen 3 Protects Chimpanzees against Malaria despite Low Immune Responses

BACKGROUND The true interest of genetic immunisation might have been hastily underestimated based on overall immunogenicity data in humans and lack of parallelism with other, more classical immunisation methods. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using malaria Liver Stage Antigen-3 (LSA-3), we report that genetic immunization induces in chimpanzees, the closest relative of humans, immune responses which are ...