infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) infects young chickens and causes serious lose to the poultry industry, worldwide. previous attempts using purified bacterially expressed ibdv vp2 failed to elicit a protective immune response to the virus. this study was designed to investigate if the initial expressed protein contained neutralizing epitopes but became nonfunctional during purification st...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes on the uptake of childhood immunization. METHODS A systematic review was carried out of the literature of controlled studies evaluating home visiting programmes involving at least one post-natal visit, which included tasks within the remit of British health visiting and reporting outcomes relevant to...

this survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in iran (west azarbaijan, bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and vaccine coverage for...

Background: The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia impacts women's reproductive health services, including pregnant women services that meet standard, namely administration TT immunization. Officers at Community Health Center (Puskesmas) are more focused on controlling spread COVID-19. problem arises due to who not administered Tetanus Toxoid during pregnancy is occurrence tetanus m...

in order to determine the efficacy of recombinant hepatitis b vaccine in iranian infants, we analyzed the efficacy of a recombinant hepatitis b vaccine in 115 infants aged 12-24 months born to hbsag negative mothers who received three doses of hbv antibody to hepatitis b surface antigen (anti-hbs) was checked after the third dose of the vaccine, 94.8% of the infants had developed protective ant...

background: the surveillance of adverse events following immunization (aefi) is essential to improve high standard of vaccine safety, and maintain public trust in immunization programs. this study aimed to determine the aefi and their related factors in children. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study including all children under 7- year of age, in hamadan province, the west of iran,...

the immunogenicity of γ-irradiated tachyzoites of a highly virulent strain of toxoplasma gondii (rh strain) was investigated. immunized mice survived challenge infection and displayed increased interferon gamma (inf-γ ) production. on the other hand, nonimmunized controls died after 10 days and displayed a significantly decreased lymphoproliferative response to concanavalin a (con a). no tachyz...

a serum survey was conducted to determine the immune status of children 2 months to 6 years old to polio virus type i, ii and iii related to the history of oral polio vaccination in fashapouye (a rural area in the south of teheran). 566 serum samples were obtained from children in 9 different villages and microneutra lization test was performed on 1;10 dilution of these sera. the study revealed...

Immunization is a way to increase person's immunity disease, so that when he later exposed the disease does not become sick. According World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 as many 22.6 million children worldwide were covered by routine immunization. In 2015 an estimated 19.9 babies achieved with immunization services such 3 doses of DTP vaccine. This type research uses analytical survey meth...