background: vaccination status is more often evaluated by up-to-date vaccination coverage rather than timeliness of immunization. this study was conducted to evaluate delayed vaccination during infancy period and to determine the predictors effecting on vaccination delay. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from june to september 2011 in hamadan province, the west of iran, recruit...

background: most studies evaluated the vaccine coverage, but the time of vaccination is important as coverage. this study was conducted to evaluate the expanded program of immunization (epi) in outskirt of iranian cities regarding to incidence of delay vaccination among children less than 4 years. methods : this cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among children 24-47 months old, li...

background: to control avian coccidiosis with drug-independent strategy effec-tively and safely, multivalent hyperimmune egg yolk immunoglobulin (igy) was prepared and its ability to protect against eimeria tenella infection was evaluated. methods: hens were orally immunized with live oocysts of 5 species of eimeria for six times, antibody titers in serum and yolk were monitored by indirect enz...

BACKGROUND Immunization rate is one of the best public health outcome and service indicators of the last 100 years. Parental decisions regarding immunization are very important to improve immunization rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between parental knowledge-practices (KP) and children's immunization completeness. METHODS A mixed method has been utilized in this s...

Bulan Imunisasi Anak Nasional or BIAN is an Health Ministry of Republic Indonesia program that aims to enhance the children’s health by immunize them with a mass Complete Immunization and Follow-Up in especially for children did not have yet since pandemic 2020. Bandung City which included West Java Province has lowest coverage among other City/Districts Java. This research aimed figure out wha...

The National Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) and its immunization schedule cover the basic minimum immunization needs of all infants in the country. The IAP endorses and fully supports them. When parents are able and willing to pay the cost additional doses of certain UTP vaccines and selected additional vaccines against certain diseases of public health importance, are recommended by IA...

conclusions based on our study, in vivo prepared e/sa may be considered as a good candidate for animal immunization. results our results showed that the serum levels of anti-e/sa immunoglobulins significantly increased in all of the immunized groups. the differences of the serum levels of tgf-β between the groups were statistically significant at days 28 and 56 after immunization with e/sa. bac...

Partially purified antigenic fractions of Leishmania major promastigotes were obtained by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS-PAGE) and electro-elution. Three isolated protein fractions designated as frac‌tions (Fr.) 1, 2, and 3 correspond to 40-60, 60-80, 80-100 kilodalton (kDa) respectively. They were used for immunization of BALB/c mice against Leishmaniasis. The effects of these fractions on immune...