CURRENT OPINION Maternal immunization as a strategy to decrease susceptibility to infection in newborn infants
B Lindsey, B Kampmann, C Jones – Curr Opin Infect Dis, 2013
… double the number in the last peak year [24,26]. The young infants who died were
all too young to have benefited from protection provided by the routine infant immuniz-
ations, which start at 2 months of age. As a response to …

Assessment of the MF59-adjuvanted pandemic influenza A/H1N1 vaccine. Systematic review of literature.
J Ruiz-Aragón, TAM Grande, S Márquez-Peláez… – Anales de pediatria ( …, 2013
OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy and safety of MF59-adjuvanted pandemic influenza
A/H1N1 vaccine in children. METHODS: A systematic review of the literature was performed
after searching the MedLine and Embase electronic databases, and manual search in …

[HTML] Optimal Vaccine Allocation for the Early Mitigation of Pandemic Influenza
L Matrajt, ME Halloran, IM Longini Jr – PLOS Computational Biology, 2013
Abstract With new cases of avian influenza H5N1 (H5N1AV) arising frequently, the threat of
a new influenza pandemic remains a challenge for public health. Several vaccines have
been developed specifically targeting H5N1AV, but their production is limited and only a …

Epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease and vaccine provision in a tertiary referral center
C Rock, C Sadlier, J Fitzgerald, M Kelleher, C Dowling… – European Journal of Clinical …, 2013
Abstract Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has an all-cause mortality of 5–35% in the
developed world. Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended for at-risk groups, including
those infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and those over 65 years of age. …