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Vaccines, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2021 - 120 articles

Cover Story: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic continues to strike, increasing its death toll throughout the globe. Vaccines represent a fundamental tool to mitigate its devastating effects. However, after availability, will we be able to implement vaccination plans efficiently? Following the trend in vaccine hesitancy in recent years, there is a growing distrust in COVID-19 vaccinations with online antivaccination movements that tend to capture the attention of those who are hesitant. Which strategies could be adopted to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Could social media trend analysis be helpful? In this paper, we discuss COVID-19 vaccines and their characteristics, current acceptance toward anti-COVID-19 vaccination, and role of social media in communication campaigns and present a case study of Twitter trend analysis in Italy. View this paper.
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Articles (120)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

23 February 2021

The emergence of non-vaccine serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae after the use of vaccines based in capsular polysaccharides demonstrates the need of a broader protection vaccine based in protein antigens and widely conserved. In this study, we cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,197 Views
14 Pages

TLR4 Agonist Combined with Trivalent Protein JointS of Streptococcus suis Provides Immunological Protection in Animals

  • Zhaofei Wang,
  • Mengting Guo,
  • Licheng Kong,
  • Ya Gao,
  • Jingjiao Ma,
  • Yuqiang Cheng,
  • Henan Wang,
  • Yaxian Yan and
  • Jianhe Sun

22 February 2021

Streptococcus suis (S. suis) serotype 2 (SS2) is the causative agent of swine streptococcosis and can cause severe diseases in both pigs and humans. Although the traditional inactive vaccine can protect pigs from SS2 infection, novel vaccine candidat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,431 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2021

The efficacy of an adenovirus-vectored Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine expressing the fusion (F) NDV protein (adeno-F) was evaluated against challenges with virulent heterologous and homologous NDV strains to the F protein. In a preliminary stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,025 Views
10 Pages

Enhancement of Vaccination Attitude and Flu Vaccination Coverage among Pregnant Women Attending Birthing Preparation Course

  • Stefania Bruno,
  • Brigida Carducci,
  • Gianluigi Quaranta,
  • Viria Beccia,
  • Andrea Di Pilla,
  • Daniele Ignazio La Milia,
  • Marcello Di Pumpo,
  • Elettra Carini,
  • Lucia Masini and
  • Enrica Tamburrini
  • + 4 authors

21 February 2021

Most vaccinations are recommended within the 15th month of life, in order to reduce risks and to protect children from the initial stages of their lives. A vaccination training session was carried out during the birthing preparation course, aimed at...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,479 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2021

In the midst of the unceasing COVID-19 pandemic, the identification of immunogenic epitopes in the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) glycoprotein plays a vital role in the advancement and development of intervention strategies. S is expressed on the exterior of t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,802 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2021

Globally, parasites are increasingly being recognized as catastrophic agents in both aquaculture sector and in the wild aquatic habitats leading to an estimated annual loss between 1.05 billion and 9.58 billion USD. The currently available therapeuti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,553 Views
12 Pages

Antibody Response to Canine Parvovirus Vaccination in Dogs with Hypothyroidism Treated with Levothyroxine

  • Michèle Bergmann,
  • Monika Freisl,
  • Katrin Hartmann,
  • Stephanie Speck,
  • Uwe Truyen,
  • Yury Zablotski,
  • Matthias Mayr and
  • Astrid Wehner

20 February 2021

(1) Background: No information is available on how dogs with hypothyroidism (HypoT) respond to vaccination. This study measured pre- and post-vaccination anti-canine parvovirus (CPV) antibodies in dogs with HypoT treated with levothyroxine and compar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,207 Views
19 Pages

Pneumococcal Choline-Binding Proteins Involved in Virulence as Vaccine Candidates

  • Julio Sempere,
  • Mirella Llamosí,
  • Idoia del Río Menéndez,
  • Beatriz López Ruiz,
  • Mirian Domenech and
  • Fernando González-Camacho

20 February 2021

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a pathogen responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Currently, the available vaccines for the prevention of S. pneumoniae infections are the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide-based vaccine (PPV-23) and the pneumoc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,309 Views
24 Pages

Multiple Levels of Immunological Memory and Their Association with Vaccination

  • Zsófia Bugya,
  • József Prechl,
  • Tibor Szénási,
  • Éva Nemes,
  • Attila Bácsi and
  • Gábor Koncz

19 February 2021

Immunological memory is divided into many levels to counteract the provocations of diverse and ever-changing infections. Fast functions of effector memory and the superposition of both quantitatively and qualitatively plastic anticipatory memory resp...

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