We're trying to better understand the barriers to flu vaccination, along
with vaccine efficacy issues.
Not exact matches
Most biotechs would have shuttered a clinical program that showed absolutely no
efficacy whatsoever in a late - stage trial, but Novavax has instead doubled down on RSV by going forth
with its phase 3 trial of the RSV F
vaccine for infants via maternal immunization, and begun planning for another trial in older adults that's reportedly on track to kick off in 2018.
Given questions about how long the
vaccine is effective for, she questioned the
efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated
with the
vaccine.
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.
«Obviously one would want to have a higher
efficacy when it comes to severe disease, but we're still hoping we can improve on the
vaccine as we go along
with the trials.»
He and Bonomo compared the
efficacy of the egg - based
vaccine with an experimental
vaccine produced from insect cells via reverse genetics.
In collaboration
with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and
vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.
For the moment, the CYD - TDV
vaccine is the best we have; however,
with 56 %
efficacy it will never be a single solution.
Qin says subsequent experiments for testing
vaccine or antiviral drug
efficacy should use contemporary strains
with the S139N mutation.
«A successful
vaccine requires a fine balance between
efficacy and safety —
vaccines made from attenuated live viruses generally offer fast and durable immunity, but sometimes
with the trade - off of reduced safety, whereas inactivated and subunit viruses often provide enhanced safety but may require several doses initially and periodic boosters.
One of the
vaccines, which is based on a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus expressing the glycoprotein of the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus (VSV - ZEBOV), was recently shown to be extremely effective
with 100 per cent
efficacy against the lethal Ebola virus disease in WHO - funded studies carried out in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
«Nevertheless,» they state, «the model provides a useful perspective on how
vaccine properties and strategic choices affect the relative size and severity of projected epidemics,» and conclude that, «a
vaccine like the Sanofi - Pasteur candidate can be an effective tool for reducing the dengue burden, although a
vaccine with waning
efficacy would require a booster program.»
At the meeting, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of Rixensart, Belgium, which has the
vaccine furthest in development, spelled out how it might scale up production in parallel
with the safety and
efficacy trials now under way so that the product could be ready for wider distribution by April if warranted.
Still, says Weiner, there are ways to enhance
efficacy, for instance by trying more or different genes or by using a so - called prime - boost strategy, in which the DNA
vaccine is followed by a shot
with the protein subunits themselves.
For influenza we offer the ferret model, the «gold standard» for infections
with human influenza viruses, which will be used to assess the
efficacy of
vaccine candidates.
The correlate study conducted by the US Military along
with Duke University has found clues that will enable scientists to improve the current
vaccine's
efficacy level.
The HVTN's mission is to fully characterize the safety, immunogenicity, and
efficacy of HIV
vaccine candidates
with the goal of developing a safe, effective
vaccine as rapidly as possible for prevention of HIV infections globally.
A new paper published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has reported on a multicentre trial to test the safety and clinical
efficacy of a new
vaccine against grass pollen allergy in patients
with grass pollen — induced rhinitis and controlled asthma.
The full paper that this statement is in response to can be found at: Niederberger et al. 2018 Safety and
efficacy of immunotherapy
with the recombinant B - cell epitope — based grass pollen
vaccine BM32.
They could potentially play a role in the event of a pandemic, in this case by «antigen sparing», allowing
efficacy with lower doses of the influenza antigen — thereby allowing faster production of more doses of the
vaccine as early as possible in the pandemic.
The
efficacy of the best
vaccines was very high in mice, providing complete protection
with a single dose.
The development track will begin
with a Phase I trial to test the
vaccine regimen's safety and immunogenicity and depending on those study results, a larger
efficacy study will follow.
The
vaccines were evaluated for immunogenicity and
efficacy; however, because of the previous report of immunopathology on challenge of ferrets and nonhuman primates that had been vaccinated
with a whole virus adjuvanted
vaccine and mice that had been vaccinated
with a VLP
vaccine, the primary orientation was to assess for immunopathology among animals in relation to type of
vaccine, dosage, serum antibody responses, and virus infection.
She is involved
with vaccine design and
efficacy screening in different models of mycobacterial infections.
The other two pandemic influenza projects focus on the
efficacy of recombinant protein and VLP pandemic influenza
vaccines combined
with IDRI's adjuvant technology.
I am told by the medical scientists that a medical
vaccine with 80 percent
efficacy is considered a very good
vaccine.
«This finding is consistent
with a hypothesis generated out of the follow - up studies to the RV144 HIV
vaccine trial in Thailand that showed the first
efficacy in humans,» noted COL Nelson Michael, Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Superior
efficacy of a human immunodeficiency virus
vaccine combined
with antiretroviral prevention in simian - human immunodeficiency virus - challenged nonhuman primates.
Glenda Gray, executive director of the Wits Health Consortium's perinatal HIV research unit in South Africa, presented data today at the HIV R4P conference in Cape Town indicating that the prime - boost
vaccine candidates initially tested in the RV144 trial in Thailand — the only HIV
vaccine trial to date to show any
efficacy — induced cross-clade immune responses in a Phase I safety trial conducted in South Africa,
with immunogenicity similar to or greater than that of the responses induced in Thai volunteers.
She began to question the safety and
efficacy of
vaccines after observing many patients
with kidney failure after receiving vaccinations.
Introducing VANGUARD ® CIV H3N2 / H3N8, a bivalent canine flu
vaccine with demonstrated safety and
efficacy for protection against both highly contagious H3N2 and H3N8 strains of canine influenza virus (CIV).
Bacterial
vaccines have low
efficacy rates coupled
with high incidence of adverse reactions.
Notably, immunogenicity and protection
efficacy conferred by the NS1 mutant H3N8 CIVs was better than that observed
with a CIV H3N8 inactivated influenza
vaccine (IIV).
«It showcases our confidence in the safety and
efficacy of our equine FLUVAC INNOVATOR ® line of
vaccines with the MetaStim ® adjuvant.
Coupled
with the often heated and sometimes emotional national discussions regarding the safety and
efficacy of
vaccines, you may wonder if it's worth vaccinating your pet at all.
Work has been completed on the formulation of the new
vaccine,
with clinical trials and
efficacy studies yet to be completed.
There have been suggestions that CPV - 2c presents challenges in terms of virulence, diagnostic testing, or
vaccine efficacy — but so far, studies have shown that current
vaccine products as well as diagnostic tests function similarly
with CPV - 2c as
with the other variants.
With regard to the controversial leptospirosis vaccine and its known ability to stimulate anaphylaxis and encephalitis, its poor record of efficacy, and the fact that leptospirosis is a relatively rare disease, I go along with Dr Schultz's own views that this vaccine comes with more risks than benefits, and that its use is questiona
With regard to the controversial leptospirosis
vaccine and its known ability to stimulate anaphylaxis and encephalitis, its poor record of
efficacy, and the fact that leptospirosis is a relatively rare disease, I go along
with Dr Schultz's own views that this vaccine comes with more risks than benefits, and that its use is questiona
with Dr Schultz's own views that this
vaccine comes
with more risks than benefits, and that its use is questiona
with more risks than benefits, and that its use is questionable.
We don't know the
efficacy of Red Rocks Biologicals Crotalus Atrox Toxoid (rattlesnake
vaccine) because no one has, or ever is, going to do controlled studies, where they inject dogs
with snake venom and compare vaccinated dogs to unvaccinated dogs, for obvious humane reasons.
Efficacy of three
vaccines in protecting Western Scrub - Jays (Aphelocoma californica) from experimental infection
with West Nile virus: implications for vaccination of Island Scrub - Jays (Aphelocoma insularis).