PURPOSE This study was aimed to determine the status and related factors of age-appropriate immunization among urban-rural children aged 24-35 months in a 2005 population-based survey in Nonsan, Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted household survey and provider check using questionnaire and checklist to obtain data on immunization status for children, aged 24-35 months. Age-appropriate i...

BACKGROUND A substantial body of work has related survey-based parental vaccine hesitancy to noncompliant childhood immunization. However little attention has been paid to the connection between parents' own immunization behavior and the immunizations their children receive. METHODS Using the Oregon ALERT Immunization Information System, we identified adult caregiver-child pairs for children ...

A cluster of adverse events following immunization (AEFI) represents a stress test for an immunization program. The community can suspect on vaccine-related reaction leading to mistrust on the immunization program. An immunization anxiety-related reaction is one of the hypotheses to be tested and can be reasonably accepted when the vaccine-related and immunization error-related reactions are ru...

in this study, the immunogenicity of a rabies vaccine that was used in one of the isfahan cattle farms is reported. this vaccine was produced by replication of the pasteur virus (pv) strain on bhk-21 monolayer cell culture. the virus suspension was inactivated by ß-propiolactone treatment and the harvested pool showed sterility and safety. thus, the obtained vaccine was tested on mice and a sat...

background: triple-course vaccination against hepatitis b might sometimes fail to increase antibody titers or maintain it at sufficient levels. the aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of seroprotection in dental students after receiving recombinant hepatitis b vaccine.     methods: anti-hbs levels of 124 dental students who had received triple-course hepatitis b vaccines (scheduled at mo...

background: streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis in children under 5-year of age. this study aims to estimate potentially preventable number of cases and deaths caused by hib and pneumococcal in iran.materials and methods:we used the burden of diseases model estimates of the world health organization (...

most highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (aiv) emerge after field passage of non-pathogenic aivs in birds. the outbreak of low-pathogenic h7n1 avian influenza virus in italy during 1999-2000 followed by outbreak of highly pathogenic h7n1 avian influenza virus is one example in this regard. this experiment has been designed to investigate the effect of pre-infection of birds with lpai on s...