measles, mumps and rubella are viral infectious diseases that may result in serious complications. since the production of vaccines, the number of cases of these diseases has been dropped. nevertheless, these infectious diseases are still one of the major health problems in developing countries. in this study, in order to evaluate the protective responses against measles, mumps and rubella, the...

background: in iran, despite the use of vaccine since 1976, we are still having local epidemics especially in the children aged 15-20 years old. since 1996, the yearly epidemics of measles have been reported in these groups in sistan- baluchestan province, south east of iran. the present study was conducted to determinate the level of immunity in this target population in zahedan. methods: a to...

background:in the recent decade, the reverse genetics method has been broadly used for rescue of negative-stranded rna viruses from cdna or viral minigenomes. this technique has been applied to study different steps in virus replication and virus-host interactions. reverse genetics could also be implemented for design of new vaccines. the t7 rna polymerase activity as well as virus (nucleocapsi...

background : measles is a contagious respiratory viral infection that accompanied with skin rash. vaccination against measles has reduced the prevalence of the disease but sporadic measles epidemic still occurred in young people. this study, was carried out for the response evaluation of immunity against measles in iranian soldiers living in garrisons.   methods: in this study based on the hist...

background : to date, 36 years has passed since the beginning of measles vaccination; the disease is still circulating around the world, threatening lives of human beings especially in developing countries.  in recent years, we have confronted measles in previously vaccinated adults from all over the country.   objective: to find out if there is a need for changing our routine measles vaccinati...

BACKGROUND Immunization against diseases is one of the most important public health interventions with cost effective means to preventing childhood morbidity, mortality and disability. However, a proportion of children particularly in Africa are not fully immunized with the recommended vaccines. Thus, many children are still susceptible to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) targeted dis...

Letters Do measles vaccines have non-specific effects on mortality? Editor – Cooper et al. (1) reviewed the non-specific effects on mortality of childhood vaccines. Although there are numerous studies detailing mortality following measles vaccination (MV) (2), only two studies cited in their article (3, 4) satisfied the authors' methodological criteria. The Zaire (3) and Bangladesh (4) studies ...

introduction: measles is a severe contagious disease preventable by vaccination. besides the prevalence of measles in iran, ministry of health conducted a nation-wide vaccination against measles for all the 5-25 years old population in 2003. this study was done to evaluate the anti measles igg antibody among the medical students from baqiyatallah university of medical science. materials & metho...