BACKGROUND Haemonchus contortus causes severe economic losses in small ruminants, so this study was conducted to study the UV effect on H. contortus larvae and its protective effect. METHODS Sixteen male goats were divided into 5 groups, control infected, control uninfected and UV 30 minutes exposure; UV 60 minutes exposure and UV booster 60 minutes exposure. The UV groups were exposed to UV ...

BACKGROUND Repeated immunizations with polysaccharide (PS) vaccines cause hyporesponsiveness through undefined mechanisms. We assessed the effects of a PS booster on immune responses, frequency, and survival of PS-specific B-cell subpopulations in spleen and bone marrow. METHODS Neonatal mice were primed with meningococcus serotype C (MenC) conjugate MenC-CRM(197)+CpG1826, boosted with MenC-C...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether state booster seat laws were associated with decreased fatality rates in children 4 to 7 years of age in the United States. METHODS Retrospective, longitudinal analysis of all motor vehicle occupant crashes involving children 4 to 7 years of age identified in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System from January 1999 through December 2009. The main outcome measure...

Background: Booster dose for COVID-19 vaccine is being administered by many countries and has recently been started India special groups. Hence, it important to understand the willingness of people receive booster factors associated with it.Methods: The present study was a community based Online Cross-sectional done using internet social media applications period 10 days from 6th January 15th 2...

BACKGROUND Streptococcosis is an important disease of tilapia throughout the world. In Malaysia, streptococcosis outbreak was commonly reported during the 3-month period of high water temperature between April and July. This study describes the duration of protection following single and double booster dose regimes against streptococcosis in tilapia using a feed-based vaccine containing formali...

A modern web-hosting site is designed to handle load that is sometimes an order of magnitude greater than the average load. Such a site can be expensive and is underutilized most of the time. We describe a design and performance study of the web booster architecture, which reduces web server load during peak periods. A web booster, inserted between client and server, instantaneously decreases s...