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Vaccines, Volume 12, Issue 4

April 2024 - 103 articles

Cover Story: Vaccination is the most effective measure against influenza. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are considered a priority group for receiving this vaccine, but historically they have been reticent. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of its importance. This study investigated the trends of vaccination coverage (VC) among HCWs from the 2019/2020 to 2022/2023 seasons, potential factors influencing HCWs acceptance, and the occurrence of adverse events (AE). Our findings reveal an increase in VC during the most critical moments of the pandemic (2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons), which has, subsequently, decreased (2022/2023 season) to levels below pre-pandemic (2019/2020 season). The most frequent reason for vaccination was “self-protection”, and 26.6% reported at least one AE, but none were severe, which justifies implementing specific measures to recover the VC. View this paper
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Articles (103)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,428 Views
12 Pages

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Associated Oral Cholera Vaccine Hesitancy in a Cholera-Endemic Country: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Arsene Daniel Nyalundja,
  • Patrick Musole Bugeme,
  • Alain Balola Ntaboba,
  • Victoire Urbain Hatu’m,
  • Guillaume Shamamba Ashuza,
  • Jacques Lukenze Tamuzi,
  • Duduzile Ndwandwe,
  • Chinwe Iwu-Jaja,
  • Charles Shey Wiysonge and
  • Patrick D. M. C. Katoto

22 April 2024

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its enablers shape community uptake of non-covid vaccines such as the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) in the post-COVID-19 era. This study assessed the impact of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its drivers on OCV hesitancy in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,354 Views
22 Pages

Characterization of the Protective Cellular Immune Response in Pigs Immunized Intradermally with the Live Attenuated African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Lv17/WB/Rie1

  • Miriam Pedrera,
  • Alejandro Soler,
  • Alicia Simón,
  • Nadia Casado,
  • Covadonga Pérez,
  • María A. García-Casado,
  • Paloma Fernández-Pacheco,
  • Pedro J. Sánchez-Cordón,
  • Marisa Arias and
  • Carmina Gallardo

20 April 2024

Candidate vaccines against African swine fever virus (ASFV) based on naturally attenuated or genetically modified viruses have the potential to generate protective immune responses, although there is no consensus on what defines a protective immune r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,341 Views
14 Pages

Anti-Herpes Zoster Vaccination of Fragile Patients in Hospital Setting: A Nudge Intervention in Italy

  • Francesco De Caro,
  • Francesca Malatesta,
  • Nadia Pecoraro,
  • Mario Capunzo,
  • Luna Carpinelli,
  • Simona Caruccio,
  • Giuseppina Cersosimo,
  • Maria Costantino,
  • Claudio Giordano and
  • Walter Longanella
  • + 6 authors

19 April 2024

Background: A nudge intervention against Herpes Zoster, created and implemented in Italy, is presented in order to administer the Shingrix vaccine on a sample of frail patients, as required by the National Prevention Plan. Individual and contextual f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,493 Views
21 Pages

19 April 2024

Most of the licensed vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 target spike proteins to induce viral neutralizing antibodies. However, currently prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants contain many mutations, especially in their spike proteins. The development of vaccine an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,486 Views
19 Pages

Courage in Decision Making: A Mixed-Methods Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Women of Reproductive Age in the U.K.

  • Laura A. Magee,
  • Julia R. Brown,
  • Vicky Bowyer,
  • Gillian Horgan,
  • Harriet Boulding,
  • Asma Khalil,
  • Nathan J. Cheetham,
  • Nicholas R. Harvey,
  • COVID Symptom Study Biobank Consortium and
  • RESILIENT Study Group
  • + 5 authors

18 April 2024

COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower in women of reproductive age (WRA), including pregnant/postpartum women, despite their poorer COVID-19-related outcomes. We evaluated the vaccination experiences of 3568 U.K. WRA, including 1983 women (55.6%) expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,287 Views
12 Pages

Using a Dynamic Model to Estimate the Cost-Effectiveness of HPV Vaccination in Iran

  • Arnold Hagens,
  • Albertus Constantijn Sloof and
  • Roksana Janghorban

18 April 2024

This study aimed to determine the cost-effectiveness of vaccination against HPV. An age–sex structured dynamic disease transmission model was created to estimate the spread of HPV and the HPV-related incidence of cervical cancer (CC) in Iran. S...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
21,123 Views
22 Pages

Hepatitis B Vaccine: Four Decades on

  • Maria Mironova and
  • Marc G. Ghany

18 April 2024

Hepatitis B virus is a substantial contributor to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) globally. Vaccination is the most effective method for prevention of hepatitis B and its associated morbidity and mortality, and the only method to prevent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,549 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Protection and Immune Response against Teladorsagia circumcincta in Goats Immunised with Thiol-Binding Proteins from Adult Worms

  • Leire Ortega,
  • Jessica Quesada,
  • Antonio Ruiz,
  • Magnolia María Conde-Felipe,
  • Otilia Ferrer,
  • María del Carmen Muñoz,
  • José Adrián Molina,
  • Francisco Rodríguez and
  • José Manuel Molina

18 April 2024

In view of the increasing occurrence of anthelmintic-resistant strains of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants, various alternative control strategies have been investigated, such as those based on the induction of protective immune responses by i...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,854 Views
9 Pages

18 April 2024

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes fatal infections, with about 36% mortality in humans, and is endemic to the Middle East. MERS-CoV uses human dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (hDPP4) as a receptor for infection. Despite continued...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,231 Views
12 Pages

The Full Value of Vaccine Assessments Concept—Current Opportunities and Recommendations

  • Richard G. White,
  • Nicolas A. Menzies,
  • Allison Portnoy,
  • Rebecca A. Clark,
  • Cristiana M. Toscano,
  • Charlotte Weller,
  • Marta Tufet Bayona,
  • Sheetal Prakash Silal,
  • Ruth A. Karron and
  • Jung-Seok Lee
  • + 6 authors

18 April 2024

For vaccine development and adoption decisions, the ‘Full Value of Vaccine Assessment’ (FVVA) framework has been proposed by the WHO to expand the range of evidence available to support the prioritization of candidate vaccines for investm...

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