[HTML][HTML] Persisting vaccine hesitancy in Africa: the whys, global public health consequences and ways-out—COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rates as case-in-point

EO Njoga, OJ Awoyomi, OS Onwumere-Idolor… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is the seventh among the WHO's top 10 threats to global public
health, which has continued to perpetuate the transmission of vaccine preventable diseases …

The Promise and Potential of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks in Vaccine Nanotechnology

YH Wijesundara, TS Howlett, S Kumari… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The immune system's complexity and ongoing evolutionary struggle against deleterious
pathogens underscore the value of vaccination technologies, which have been bolstering …

COVID-19 and children

CA Pierce, KC Herold, BC Herold, J Chou, A Randolph… - Science, 2022 - science.org
There has been substantial research on adult COVID-19 and how to treat it. But how do
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections afflict children …

[HTML][HTML] Novel pneumococcal capsule type 33E results from the inactivation of glycosyltransferase WciE in vaccine type 33F

FA Ganaie, JS Saad, SW Lo, L McGee… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
The polysaccharide (PS) capsule is essential for immune evasion and virulence of
Streptococcus pneumoniae. Existing pneumococcal vaccines are designed to elicit …

Comparing research and development, launch, and scale up timelines of 18 vaccines: lessons learnt from COVID-19 and implications for other infectious diseases

W Mao, A Zimmerman, EU Hodges, E Ortiz, G Dods… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Over the next decade, millions of deaths could be prevented by increasing access to
vaccines in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The COVID-19 pandemic has …

A shot at economic prosperity: Long-term effects of India's childhood immunization program on earnings and consumption expenditure

A Summan, A Nandi, DE Bloom - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Routine childhood vaccinations are among the most cost-effective child health interventions.
In recent years, the broader benefits of vaccines, which include improved cognitive and …

IL-17 and IFN-γ–producing Respiratory Tissue-Resident Memory CD4 T Cells Persist for Decades in Adults Immunized as Children With Whole-Cell Pertussis …

KN McCarthy, S Hone, RM McLoughlin… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The objective was to determine if antigen-specific tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells
persist in respiratory tissues of adults immunized as children with whole-cell pertussis (wP) …

Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution

M Domenech de Cellès, P Rohani - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Pertussis, which is caused by Bordetella pertussis, has plagued humans for at least 800
years, is highly infectious and can be fatal in the unvaccinated, especially very young …

[PDF][PDF] Changes in the prevalence of infectious diseases before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

MS Rana, M Usman, MM Alam, M Tahir, A Ikram… - Journal of Infection, 2023 - Elsevier
Dear Editor, We read with immense interest a recent article entitled “changes of
staphylococcus aureus infection in children before and after the COVID-19 pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in genomics-based approaches for the development of intracellular bacterial pathogen vaccines

MA Khan, A Amin, A Farid, A Ullah, A Waris, K Shinwari… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases continue to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The
majority of infectious diseases are caused by intracellular pathogenic bacteria (IPB) …