Sentences with phrase «use of a vaccine against»

Before the widespread use of a vaccine against measles, its incidence was so high that patients born before 1949 are assumed to have had measles.

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These cases aren't of the wild poliovirus variety, however, but rather derived from the oral vaccine used against the pathogen.

I for one am not against using a necklace for teething, and I vaccinate my kids and myself but do not think any less of people who are against vaccines!

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

Babies inoculated with a commonly used five - in - one vaccine to protect against a range of potentially lethal childhood diseases face up to a six-fold increased risk of fever - associated seizures on the day they are vaccinated, according to a study of nearly 380,000 Danish children.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using electronic prompts alerting them of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

After years of speculation about the promise of cancer vaccines as a way to use the immune system against tumors, the United States will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market.

Last summer, she lost her job as European correspondent for Renewable Energy World, an online publication, after filing charges with the F.B.I. against the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several top U.S. government officials, claiming they are part of a plot to depopulate the United States using tainted H1N1 flu vaccines.

Although use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which helps prevent against cervical and other cancers, has increased in the past 5 years, HPV vaccination remains low with only 37.6 % of adolescent girls and 13.9 % of adolescent boys receiving vaccination.

«The microgravity environment of the International Space Station is now being used for myriad lines of research, for example: vaccine development, finding novel molecular targets against drug - resistant pathogens, and testing of molecules to be used against osteoporosis or cancer,» Zea says.

«Now I see how vaccine technology can be used against a host of public health issues.»

Large - scale use of vaccine aims to break stalemate against the disease by protecting people most at risk.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

Despite the widespread use of screening programs and the recent advent of vaccines against human papilloma virus, cervical cancer continues to be a significant public health problem.

As another paper published yesterday, this one in Science Express, emphasizes yet again, widespread use of a vaccine could have a powerful impact against the H1N1 virus — if it arrived early enough and was widely used.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

Oral polio vaccination will continue, but it will use a vaccine that protects against just the two other types of polio virus that are still circulating in their wild form in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

«An effective vaccine against uterine diseases will have a significant positive impact on the dairy industry, limiting the use of antibiotics, and decreasing economic losses due to these disorders.

So Tesh first exposed hamsters to a broad range of flaviruses: dengue, the yellow fever vaccine, St. Louis encephalitis, a live vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) that's used in China, or a killed JE vaccine licensed in the United States.

Another possibility that Irvine's lab is working on is developing treatments that could be used against tumors even when scientists don't know of a specific vaccine target for that type of tumor.

Candidate vaccines against Ebola or malaria — one of which recently received an important stamp of approval in Europe — should definitely be used if they are safe and effective, he says, but they could lead to more virulent pathogens.

BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis, was discovered in the 1920s and is one of the most used vaccines worldwide.

One of the most contentious and closely scrutinized decisions before the FDA concerns Provenge, a proposed therapeutic vaccine made by Dendreon for use against prostate cancer.

The studies support the concept of using natural exposure in combination with malaria - fighting drugs to help people build up protection against disease, says malaria vaccine researcher Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Widespread use of a vaccine that protects against three serotypes might result in fewer cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and reduce the overall disease burden; modeling could be used to investigate this scenario.

«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the use of antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection in infants, however this study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing antibodies may actually aid in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.

Dr Smout said the discovery means it's possible the growth factor could be used to accelerate the healing of chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers and to develop a vaccine against the worm - induced cancer.

The story of development of vaccines against rubella and other childhood diseases in the 1960s pits a daring young biologist against his world - famous boss, testing that used prisoners, intellectually disabled children, and other disenfranchised subjects, political roadblocks that nearly derailed the research, and other elements of high drama.

Four years and several country - wide studies later, there now is an established link between Pandemrix, a vaccine against the H1N1 strain of the flu that was widely used in Europe, and some cases of narcolepsy.

To be certain the Th2 type immunopathology was elicited by the S protein vaccine in our studies and in hopes a greater immune response would result from higher dosages of the vaccine and induce greater protection against infection as well as reduce or prevent the immunopathology, our experiment 2 used up to 9 µg of the S protein for immunization.

Those antibodies could be used to develop vaccines to protect against Zika, as well as therapies to treat the virus, according to the study, which was a collaboration between researchers at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine.

Her research involves preclinical immunology and efficacy of vaccines against H5N1 pandemic influenza, malaria, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis using mouse, ferret and guinea pig models.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

Vaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afVaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afvaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afternoon.

Preclinical studies of vaccine candidates have typically shown post-infection virologic control, but protection against acquisition of infection has previously only been reported using less rigorous viral challenges.

Although some vaccines are in use in Asia, we do not know whether they would work against the U.S. strains of the virus.»

A research team at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is using genetically modified mice to be able to test possible vaccines and treatments against the Zika virus.

The research of the Department of Parasitology is focused on developing vaccines and drugs against malaria and TB, using non-human primate models.

«Now you have a way to test efficacy of future vaccines or future therapeutics, whether those therapeutics are drugs that exist already that could be used in a different way for a different purpose, or new classes of drugs such as antibody - based therapeutics that would be more specifically against Zika,» Diamond said.

Recent attempts on extensive trials of cancer vaccines, using viral structures or substructures against several cancers such as cervices, prostate, lung, pancreatic and skin also failed to produce the overall protective clinical outcomes

In that tomato is a type of glikoalkaloidu, which is used in the production of vaccines to ensure that the patient obtains immunity against the virus, which is grafted.

Vaccinations can be put into two categories: core vaccines, used to protect horses against diseases that every horse is at risk of contracting (such as West Nile virus, Eastern and Western encephalitis, tetanus and rabies), and risk - based vaccines.

Vaccinations can be put into two categories: core vaccines, used to protect horses against diseases that every horse is at risk of contracting, and risk - based vaccines.

Parainfluenza virus is commonly vaccinated against as a part of the «five - way» vaccine used for puppy series of vaccines and as an annual booster in adult dogs.

In dogs it has been demonstrated that when intranasal Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccines are used for initial vaccination and injectable vaccines are used for subsequent doses, immune responses may be improved.3, 4 Similar techniques combining oral and injectable vaccines have been demonstrated to provide a more robust immune response in humans.5 Zoetis is excited to be the only company to offer veterinarians the capability to use this concept for vaccination of their canine patients against B.bronchiseptica.

Instead of using multivalent vaccines (combination vaccines against more than one disease), they recommend using monovalent vaccines which only have one component, e.g., a vaccine that only contains parvovirus.

In Texas, state law requires that dogs and cats be vaccinated against rabies by 4 months of age and on a 1 - year or 3 - year basis thereafter depending on the vaccine used.