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PubMed Articles
The bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine provides very efficient protection in standard animal models of Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge. We show in this article that although bacille Calmette-Guéri...
Silica nanorattle with enhanced protein loading: a potential vaccine adjuvant.
Nanoparticles are excellent carriers for drug and protein, and have the potential to be used in vaccine delivery system. Here, we prepared different structures silica nanoparticles such as silica nano...
Identifying pregnancy episodes, outcomes, and mother-infant pairs in the Vaccine Safety Datalink.
The need for research on the safety of vaccination during pregnancy is widely recognized. Large, population-based data systems like the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) may be useful for this research, b...
Population access to new vaccines in European countries.
Time from registration to population access to new vaccines can take considerable time in European countries. Reasons might be found in the regulatory framework, decision-making processes or the asses...
BACKGROUND: India accounts for 22% of the 453,000 global rotavirus deaths among children
Improvement to the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines was evaluated in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection mouse model examining the combined effects of nonlytic Fc-fused IL-7 DNA (IL-7-nFc) and...
Emergence of serogroup X meningococcal disease in Africa: Need for a vaccine.
Neisseria meningitidis is responsible for the seasonal burden and recurrent epidemics of meningitis in an area of sub-Saharan Africa known as the meningitis belt. Historically, the majority of the cas...
Barriers to influenza vaccination among pregnant women.
Despite pregnant women's increased morbidity and mortality from influenza, vaccination rates remain low. This study intended to evaluate barriers to pregnant women's uptake of influenza vaccine.
Salmonella Typhimurium lacking the Znuabc transporter is attenuated and immunogenic in pigs.
Meat contamination by Salmonella spp. is emerging as a major cause of human enteric infections in industrialized countries. The attempts to reduce human cases of salmonellosis encompass pre- and post-...
News Articles
TB: Discover & develop improved vaccines – Dr Steve Reed
World Vaccine Congress & Expo 2013 Dr Steve Reed, President & Founder of IDRI gives his presentation on ‘TB: Discover & develop improved vaccines’. The [...]
Japan Ministry Still Puzzled By Adverse HPV Vaccine Reactions
Japan's suspension of a program urging cervical-cancer vaccinations continues as the health ministry struggles to understand the causes of adverse side effects that led to the response.
Brazil Plans Own Making Of H1N1 Vaccine To Avoid Private-Sector Pitfalls
Brazil's Ministry of Health plans to produce its own H1N1 influenza vaccine to avoid the pitfalls of relying on the private sector constantly challenged by a changing economic landscape.
Dynavax Chief Scientific Officer Awarded Prestigious Immunology Prize
BERKELEY, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/19/13 -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) announced today that the 2013 Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology has been awarded to Dr. Robert L. Coffma...
Vaccine For A Common Respiratory Disease Moves A Step Closer
RSV is a common cause of respiratory infection, but there is no vaccine available. It causes flu-like symptoms in healthy adults, but becomes life-threatening in young children and the elderly. It is...
Paediatric rheumatology: HPV vaccine safe and effective in patients with JIA
Flu shot likely prevented 13 million illnesses, 110,000 hospitalizations from 2005-2011
(Public Library of Science) Approximately 13 million illnesses and over 110,00 hospitalizations may have been averted by the flu vaccine over the last 6 years in the US, according to calculations publ...
Allied Healthcare to start landmark clinical trial for genital herpes vaccine
Allied Healthcare Group (ASX: AHZ) has reached a major milestone with its receipt of ethical approval to begin a Phase 1, dose ranging clinical trial for its Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-2) vaccine.The c...
VGTI Florida Scientists to Receive $3.6 Million in NIH Research Grants
Scientists at the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI Florida®) have been awarded three new federal research grants that will further support the Institute’s...
Events
Infectious Diseases World Summit 2013
3 Tracks: 10th Anti-Infectives Partnering and Deal-Making 11th Vaccines Research & Development: All Things Considered 2nd Influenza Research & Development
Cancer Vaccines will provide attendees with a complete view of the cancer immunotherapy field. Focusing on the discovery of new vaccines, developments in target identification
World Vaccine Congress Europe 2013
Where global vaccine stakeholders meet to do business
Companies
International Medica Foundation
The International Medica Foundation, which has the rights to RotaShield, is a nonprofit foundation that focuses on ensuring that a safe, effective and affordable rotavirus...
Xenetic is a leading UK-based biopharmaceutical company providing leading-edge expertise in the development of a whole new generation of drugs and vaccines. Working with some of the largest pharma...
VGTI Florida is the Florida-funded expansion of Oregon Health & Science University's highly successful Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute. Research at the facility will focus on v...
Etubics Corporation, based in Seattle, Wash., is a clinical stage bio-pharmaceutical company, which has developed a proprietary platform technology consisting of a next generation...
Fraunhofer USA CMB, a division of Fraunhofer USA, Inc., is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to develop safe and effective vaccines targeting infectious dise...
Profectus BioSciences, Inc. is a technology based vaccine company devoted to the treatment and prevention of chronic viral diseases with a goal of reducing morbidity and mo...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell response helps confer protect...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell responses help confer protect...
Aduro BioTech is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company with a platform technology for therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases. The platform of at...
VBI Vaccines is a biotechnology company dedicated to the innovative formulation, development and delivery of safe and effective vaccines that expand and enhance vaccine protection...
Clinical Trials
A study to assess whether the Northern Hemisphere 2009/2010 season influenza vaccine Inflexal V is as immunogenic as a locally sourced competitor vaccine in young children.
Study of the Safety and Immunogenicity of a Novel H5N1 Influenza Vaccine in Healthy Adults Age 18-49
The purpose of this study is to test an investigational vaccine known as "VAX161C." An "investigational" vaccine is one that is not licensed for commercial use in the by the United States...
Low Dose Vaccine Study for Surgically Resected Pancreatic Cancer
To assess the response for subjects with pancreatic cancer that have undergone surgical resection and treatment with a vaccine given with or without chemotherapy and chemoradiation.
Safe Administration of Flu Vaccine to Egg Allergic Children
Historically, providing influenza vaccination of egg allergic children and young adults (EAC) with a history of anaphylaxis to egg, or other severe symptoms of an allergic reaction to egg...
Improving the Immune System With Human IL-7 Vaccine in Older Subjects Who Have Had Chemotherapy
Background: - Drugs given to treat cancer (chemotherapy) can weaken the human immune system. But it can also become weaker because of aging. Interleukin (IL)-7, a molecule produced natura...
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells may help the body build an effective immune response. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of vaccine therap...
We plan to study whether the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar™) is safe and effective in protecting children who have had a solid organ transplantation and healthy childr...
Influenza Vaccine in Lung Transplant Patients
Research Question: How do antibody and T cell responses following influenza vaccine compare among lung transplant patients, patients waiting for lung transplantation and healthy individua...
Administration of Autologous Dendritic Cells (DCs) Infected With an Adenovirus Expressing Her-2
We, the researchers at Hamilton Health Sciences, have developed a novel approach to cancer therapy using transfected dendritic cells (DCs) to generate enhanced immunity to defined tumor an...
GSK Biologicals is developing in partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative at PATH a candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02 for the routine immunization of infants and children living...
Videos
Should You Get the HPV Vaccine?
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Mass Vaccination
Administration of a vaccine to large populations in order to elicit IMMUNITY.
Herpes Zoster Vaccine
An attenuated vaccine used to prevent and/or treat HERPES ZOSTER, a disease caused by HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3.
Streptococcus Gordonii
A species of gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family STREPTOCOCCACEAE. It is a normal inhabitant of the human oral cavity, and causes DENTAL PLAQUE and ENDOCARDITIS. It is being investigated as a vehicle for vaccine delivery.
Post-exposure Prophylaxis
The prevention of infection or disease following exposure to a pathogen. This is most frequently addressed by administering a vaccine or anti-viral medication following exposure to a virus.
Rabies Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent and treat RABIES. The inactivated virus vaccine is used for preexposure immunization to persons at high risk of exposure, and in conjunction with rabies immunoglobulin, for postexposure prophylaxis.
