the main aim of this study was to find a suitable rabies vaccination protocol which would allow usage of lower volumes of vaccine, fewer clinical visits and above all, enough serological effectiveness for high-risk individuals requiring pre-exposure immunization. human diploid cell rabies vaccine was administered intradermally and intramuscularly in 60 previously unvaccinated volunteers, aged 1...

objective(s): enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec) strains are one of the primary causes of diarrhea in newborn calves and in humans, pigs, and sheep. igy technology has been identified as a promising alternative to generating a mass amount of specific antibody for use in immunotherapy and immunodiagnostics. the purpose of this study was to produce specific antibody by egg yolk antibody (igy...

in 1974, the world health organization (who) established the expanded program on immunization (epi) to ensure that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. since then, global coverage with the four core vaccines (bacille calmette guérin vaccine [for protection against tuberculosis], diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine [dtp], polio vaccine, and measles vaccine) has increased ...

infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) infects young chickens and causes serious lose to the poultry industry, worldwide. previous attempts using purified bacterially expressed ibdv vp2 failed to elicit a protective immune response to the virus. this study was designed to investigate if the initial expressed protein contained neutralizing epitopes but became nonfunctional during purification st...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes on the uptake of childhood immunization. METHODS A systematic review was carried out of the literature of controlled studies evaluating home visiting programmes involving at least one post-natal visit, which included tasks within the remit of British health visiting and reporting outcomes relevant to...

this survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in iran (west azarbaijan, bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and vaccine coverage for...

Background: The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia impacts women's reproductive health services, including pregnant women services that meet standard, namely administration TT immunization. Officers at Community Health Center (Puskesmas) are more focused on controlling spread COVID-19. problem arises due to who not administered Tetanus Toxoid during pregnancy is occurrence tetanus m...

in order to determine the efficacy of recombinant hepatitis b vaccine in iranian infants, we analyzed the efficacy of a recombinant hepatitis b vaccine in 115 infants aged 12-24 months born to hbsag negative mothers who received three doses of hbv antibody to hepatitis b surface antigen (anti-hbs) was checked after the third dose of the vaccine, 94.8% of the infants had developed protective ant...

background: the surveillance of adverse events following immunization (aefi) is essential to improve high standard of vaccine safety, and maintain public trust in immunization programs. this study aimed to determine the aefi and their related factors in children. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study including all children under 7- year of age, in hamadan province, the west of iran,...