The primary goal of this study was to determine whether exercise-associated improvements of the immune response to influenza vaccination were mediated by improvements in psychosocial factors in older adults. At baseline, prior to the exercise intervention, older adult participants were immunized with influenza vaccine. Blood samples collected pre-immunization, 1, 4, and 12 weeks post-immunizati...

The research was conducted on clinically healthy mares (n = 40) and foals (n = 78) during Y. pseudotuberculosis associated enzootics. The animals were divided into groups: I to IV--mares, IA to IVA--their offsprings, IB to IVB--foals which mothers were not treated with any medicaments. The animals in group I, IA and IB were injected with PBS; in group II, IIA and IIB--with Y. pseudotuberculosis...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B infection (HBV) is a major Public Health Problem. Perinatal transmission can be prevented with the identification of HBsAg(+) women and administration of immunoprophylaxis to their newborns. A national prevention programme for HBV with universal screening of pregnant women and vaccination of infants is in effect since 1998 in Greece. METHODS To evaluate adherence to the...

Pakistan has the highest infant mortality rate in South Asia, is one of two countries where wild polio still endemic, and ranked third for un- or under-immunized children. Why this case when considerable donor government funds have been spent on Pakistan’s Expanded Program Immunization (EPI)? Based a year mixed methods research district Kasur Punjab, Pakistan, we focus vaccination as site inter...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this review was to evaluate the evidence for the hypothesis that psychological stress influences antibody response to immunization in humans. METHODS A critical review of the literature was conducted. RESULTS The evidence supports an association between psychological stress and suppression of humoral immune (antibody) response to immunization. This association is ...

Pertussis continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among nonimmunized young infants. Although the inception of childhood pertussis immunization programs has significantly reduced the occurrence of the disease in children, waning vaccine-induced immunity permits the disease to affect adolescents and adults, who in turn transmit the disease to unimmunized or incompletely imm...

Antibody response to the influenza immunization was investigated in 83 1st-semester healthy university freshmen. Elevated levels of loneliness throughout the semester and small social networks were independently associated with poorer antibody response to 1 component of the vaccine. Those with both high levels of loneliness and a small social network had the lowest antibody response. Loneliness...

Self-deception entails apparent conceptual paradoxes and poses the dilemma between two competing needs: the need for stability of the self-concept, on the one hand, and the need to accept reality, on the other. It is argued, first, that conceptual difficulties can be avoided by distinguishing two levels of explanation. Whereas, in a personal language, "the person" deceives him- or her-self, a c...