Background: This study was designed to determine the levels of immunity against diphtheria
and tetanus in 110 mothers with/without diphtheria-tetanus toxoid (dT) vaccination during …

Background Measles vaccines (MV) have sex-differential effects on mortality not explained
by protection against measles infection. Objective The authors examined whether whole-cell …

There is increasing evidence that the functional state of the immune system at birth is
predictive of the kinetics of immune maturation in early infancy. Moreover, this maturation …

Vaccination during pregnancy is a proven strategy to protect infants against infectious
diseases in early life, and is currently successfully implemented for tetanus, pertussis …

The paper from Guinea Bissau in this issue, on routine vaccinations and child survival, may
cause concern. An observational study undertaken under difficult circumstances, it reports …

Vaccine preventable diseases are a major contributor to child morbidity and mortality
especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular. It accounts for 17% of global …

Background Nutritional status may play a role in infant immune development. To identify
potential boosters of immunogenicity in low-income countries where oral vaccine efficacy is …

Background: Exposures during early life are increasingly being recognised as factors that
play an important role in the aetiology of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The …

Maternal vaccines have the potential to reduce the global burden of neonatal morbidity and
mortality by accessing the infant immune system before a vaccine administered in childhood …

Objective A substantial dropout from the first dose of diphtheria‐tetanus‐pertussis (DTP1) to
the 3rd dose of DTP (DTP3) immunization has been recorded in Pakistan. We conducted a …