At all post-immunization time points, mean log antibody levels (µg / mL) were significantly higher in the malaria vaccine groups compared to the rabies vaccine group (t - test p - values < 0.0001 at all post-immunization time points for each malaria
vaccine dose group compared to rabies vaccine group).
All doses of the malaria vaccine induced similar high levels of antibodies, with overlapping 95 % confidence intervals among the 3 malaria
vaccine dose groups at all time points.
Not exact matches
For some
vaccines, like tetanus, «the same
dose is given to a 2 - month - old infant and an NFL football player,» says John Grabenstein, senior medical director for adult
vaccines at Merck, who also sat on the working
group and voted in favor of the recommendation this afternoon.
The
group that received the high
dose vaccine had a 19.7 percent hospital admission rate versus 20.9 percent in admission for those who received the standard
dose vaccine.
The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two
groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular
dose of the influenza
vaccine or the high
dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.
Whether the higher
dose becomes the preferred procedure for nursing homes would be determined by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a
group of medical and public health experts that develop recommendations on use of
vaccines in the civilian population.
Members of the other
group received an HPV
vaccine - specific brochure, plus telephone calls to parents who declined, and reminder calls to patients overdue for the second and third
doses of the
vaccine.
«Using an approved flu
vaccine in a novel
dosing schedule yielded promising results for a
group patients at high risk for infection,» Branagan said.
Tested in a U.S. - sponsored trial that involved more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, the
vaccine was administered in six injected
doses starting in 2006 to half of the
group, and the other half received a placebo.
As part of the study,
groups of 18 to 20 female mice were vaccinated with one of the
vaccines or a placebo, and some animals received a second
dose of the same
vaccine or placebo a month later.
Preliminary evidence suggested that the
vaccine wards off disease; none of the patients who received the
vaccine developed influenza in the winter after they were vaccinated, compared to two in a
group who received a lower
dose, and seven in the placebo
group, the team reports today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The best immune response was shown in a
group of nine test persons who received the highest
dose of the
vaccine three times at four - week intervals.
The PneumoADIP anticipates that a few so - called early adopter countries would realistically order one million to three million
doses of
vaccine in the next three years at a range of (donor - subsidized) prices that manufacturers might accept, observes Angeline Nanni, the
group's director of
vaccine supply and finance.
Among the latter
group, about 46 out of every thousand were hospitalized per year of observation; among those who had received a
dose of anthrax
vaccine, that number was only 25 — a statistically significant difference.
The results showed that children in the educational text message reminder
group were significantly more likely to receive a second
dose of influenza
vaccine (72.7 %) than both those in the conventional text message reminder
group (66.7 %) and written reminder - only
group (57.1 %).
The new backbone could help streamline annual
vaccine production, which could be especially relevant during a pandemic, notes Kawaoka's
group, when the sudden emergence of novel strains forces companies to rapidly make millions of
doses of a new
vaccine.
The live attenuated
vaccine primer created strong immune memory in both age
groups, regardless of whether volunteers received one or two
doses.
The
vaccine, developed and tested by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other
groups, was administered in multiple
doses intravenously.
Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these
groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority
groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of
vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing
vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller
doses could have important public health implications.
In a comparison between the 781 participants who received the standard -
dose trivalent inactivated
vaccine and the 1885 who received the quadrivalent inactivated
vaccine, the trivalent
vaccine was not associated with significantly higher odds of influenza, either overall (odds ratio, 1.2; 95 % CI, 0.8 to 1.7) or according to age
group (Figure 3).
According to Col Jerome Kim, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, US, who was also part of the lead
group for the study, apart from the current four
doses of
vaccines that were given to subjects in the phase III clinical trials in Thailand, they are planning to give a booster does after six months to increase the strength of the
vaccine.
[5] Of the remainder, only three were serious adverse events, none of which were judged by the investigators to be unexpected or related to therapy: all occurred in the low - rather than the high -
dose vaccine group, and all were lower back or knee pains common in older adults.
The sample size of 15 in the 10 µg
dose group and 30 each in the 25 µg and 50 µg
dose groups was chosen to balance the need to detect any possible untoward reactions against the need to limit the number of volunteers exposed to an experimental
vaccine for evaluation of safety.
Geometric mean titers for the highest
dose of the DI
vaccine were higher for those
vaccine groups in the Balb / c mice than the C57BL / 6 mice but only the nonadjuvanted DI
vaccine group was significantly higher (p = 0.008, Mann Whitney U).
Two
groups of 12 subjects each were randomized to receive either a low (15 µg) or a high (75 µg)
dose of the
vaccine, one injection monthly for the first 4 months, and were monitored for a total of one year; 8 subjects serving as untreated controls and treated with best usual care.
22 Next, the CDC aggressively increased the
dosing and expanded the target
groups for the influenza
vaccine, recommending a double
dose for infants at both six and seven months, plus subsequent annual
doses, and a
dose for all pregnant women, no longer limited to the second and third trimesters.22 As of 2013, more than half of influenza
vaccines were still preserved with thimerosal, 22 with the availability of non-thimerosal versions subject to supply - and - demand dynamics.
Since the second
dose of the
vaccine is typically administered three weeks after the first
dose, the first
dose should ideally be administered at least four weeks before the exposure to a
group of at - risk dogs.