OBJECTIVE To study the trends of paralytic poliomyelitis in pre Pulse Polio Immunization period. SETTING Hospital based sentinel surveillance. METHODS Analysis of 6704 line-listed poliomyelitis cases from January 1989 to December 1994 attending the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. RESULTS 85% of all cases reported in Delhi were from this center. A decline in alternate y...

Background: Although the immunization coverage has increased over the past few years, school age is still a neglected area and accounts for high number of unimmunized children in developing world including India. Objective: This study has been undertaken to determine the immunization status of school children in an urban locality of Indore, a district of central India; and to determine if paren...

The aim of this review was to identify whether non-professional volunteer support might be effective in improving the uptake of child immunization. The Cochrane Library, Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Embase databases were searched for randomized controlled trials comparing groups of parents supported by lay volunteers with those supported by conventional ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study evaluated a change in immunization rates and medical resident knowledge following an educational intervention. Differences in immunization rates based on resident or patient characteristics were also assessed. METHODS This pre- and post-intervention retrospective chart review targeted family medicine and internal medicine residents at the St. Vincent Joshu...

Measles immunoglobulin G (IgG) seroepidemiologic studies have been widely used to monitor the effectiveness of measles immunization programs in Taiwan. However, studies about cellular immunity against the measles virus have been lacking. This study surveyed cellular immunity after measles, mumps and rubella combined vaccine (MMR) immunization in Taiwan. Seventy six people between 1 and 80 years...

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...

Background/Aims: Will immunization with an experimental Pre-S1/Pre-S2/S hepatitis B vaccine (Bio-Hep-Be) induce faster seroprotection using fewer doses as compared with a yeast derived S vaccine (Engerix B). Methods: Healthy volunteers, nˆ 36, mean age 23 y, randomized to receive 2 or 3 doses of both vaccines given months 0 and 6, or 0, 1 and 6. Results: Following primary immunization, seroprot...

BACKGROUND The main service provider for childhood immunization in Sri Lanka is the government sector. However, utilization of private sector for childhood immunization is increasing rapidly. Existing national immunization data does not routinely include statistics on private sector immunization delivery adequately. OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of children immunized in the private sec...