Ngwa, Che Henry Doungtsop, Brigitte-Carole Keumatio Bihnwi, Rengerline Ngo, Ngo Valery Yang, Niendum Mediatrice
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
The discovery and development of vaccines remain one of the major successes of global health with millions of lives saved every year through routine vaccination. Although vaccines provide a safe and cost-effective solution to vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), VPDs are still a serious public health problem in most parts of the world, especially i...
MacDonald, Shannon E Palichuk, Airlie Slater, Linda Tripp, Hailey Reifferscheid, Laura Burton, Catherine
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Immunocompromised children are at increased risk of severe illness from vaccine-preventable infections. However, inadequate vaccine coverage remains a concern. This scoping review sought to determine the current state of knowledge regarding vaccine coverage of immunocompromised children. Bibliographic databases were searched for primary research fr...
Vetter, Volker Gardner, Robert C Debrus, Serge Benninghoff, Bernd Pereira, Priya
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARYThe diseaseRotaviruses are a leading cause of acute diarrhea, also called gastroenterities, among young children. They can lead to servere dehydration, hospitilization, and even death.Several vaccines against rotavirus disease have been developed. Their design is based on:weakened human rotavirus that mimic natural infection w...
Fitz, Veronika El Abiead, Yasin Berger, Daniel Koellensperger, Gunda
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Covering a wide spectrum of molecules is essential for global metabolome assessment. While metabolomics assays are most frequently carried out in microbore LC-MS analysis, reducing the size of the analytical platform has proven its ability to boost sensitivity for specific -omics applications. In this study, we elaborate the impact of LC miniaturiz...
Onyemaechi, Simeon Beluonwu Ezenwaka, Uchenna Rita
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Frontiers in Public Health
Background Enrollment in sub-national social health insurance schemes (SSHIS) can be challenging in developing countries like Nigeria, particularly among people in the informal sector. This could be due to a lack of knowledge on its mode of operation and benefits, distrust in government, inimical religious and traditional beliefs, as well as constr...
Segerman, Bo Ástvaldsson, Ásgeir Mustafa, Linda Skarin, Joakim Skarin, Hanna
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is becoming the new standard for bacterial high-resolution typing and the performance of laboratories is being evaluated in interlaboratory comparisons. The use of the Illumina Nextera XT library preparation kit has been found to be associated with poorer performance due to a GC-content-dependent coverage bias. The bia...
Sinha, Abhinav Mohapatra, Sumegha Mohanty, Shubhashisha Pati, Sanghamitra Sahoo, Prakash Kumar
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Tropical doctor
Sustainable Development Goal-3 (SDG) aims to eliminate lymphatic filariasis by 2030 through >65% coverage and compliance of mass drug administration (MDA), the preventive chemotherapy strategy of delivering anthelminthic drugs. However, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted such programmes, yet MDA was administered during February 2021 in Odi...
Cuellar, Alison Pomeroy, J Mary Louise Burla, Sriteja Jena, Anupam B
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Expansion of telehealth insurance coverage is hampered by concerns that such coverage may encourage excessive use and spending. Objective The aim of this paper is to examine whether users of telehealth services rely more on other forms of outpatient care than nonusers, and to estimate the differences in payment rates. Methods We examined...
Valentim, Ricardo A. M. de Oliveira, Carlos A. P. Oliveira, Eloiza S. G. Ribeiro, Eduardo L. da Costa, Soneide M. Morais, Ione R. D. Fernandes, Felipe R. dos S. Caitano, Alexandre R. Gusmão, Cristine M. G. Cunha-Oliveira, Aliete
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Frontiers in Medicine
The Virtual Learning Environment of the Brazilian Health System (AVASUS) is a free and open distance education platform of the Ministry of Health (MS). AVASUS is a scalable virtual learning environment that has surpassed 800,000 users, 2 million enrollments, and 310 courses in its catalog. The objective of this paper was to assess the impacts of th...
Winkelmann, Juliane Rossi, Jesús Gómez Schwendicke, Falk Dimova, Antoniya Atanasova, Elka Habicht, Triin Kasekamp, Kaija Gandré, Coralie Or, Zeynep McAuliffe, Úna
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Background: Oral health, coupled with rising awareness on the impact that limited dental care coverage has on oral health and general health and well-being, has received increased attention over the past few years. The purpose of the study was to compare the statutory coverage and access to dental care for adult services in 11 European countries us...