Socioeconomic Status Is Associated With Antibody Levels Against Vaccine Preventable Diseases in the Netherlands

is hepatitis e a vaccine preventable diseases?

Maternal HIV infection and antibody responses against vaccine-preventable diseases in uninfected infants.

CONTEXT Altered immune responses might contribute to the high morbidity and mortality observed in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-exposed uninfected infants. OBJECTIVE To study the association of maternal HIV infection with maternal- and infant-specific antibody levels to Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pneumococcus, Bordetella pertussis antigens, tetanus toxoid, and hepatitis B surfa...

Vaccine preventable viral diseases and risks associated with waterborne transmission.

Rotavirus and poliovirus are paradigmatic viruses for causing major diseases affecting the human population. The impact of poliovirus is remarkably diminished because of vaccination during the last half century. Poliomyelitis due to wild polio currently affects a limited number of countries, and since 2000 sporadic outbreaks have been associated to neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses....

Vaccine-preventable diseases.

The panel addressed four main areas of vaccine development and use: diseases of public health importance for which no vaccine is available; diseases for which an existing licensed vaccine is not optimal and alternative vaccines are under development; diseases for which a vaccine exists but is not being used optimally; and diseases requiring vaccines of specialized or limited use, such as those ...

Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormones.

OBJECTIVE We assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with basal levels of cortisol and catecholamines and determine if any association between SES and these hormones can be explained (is mediated) by behavioral, social, and emotional differences across the SES gradient. METHODS One hundred ninety-three adult subjects, including men and women and whites and African-Americans, p...