How many child deaths can we prevent this year?

G Jones, RW Steketee, RE Black, ZA Bhutta, SS Morris - The lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
This is the second of five papers in the child survival series. The first focused on continuing
high rates of child mortality (over 10 million each year) from preventable causes: diarrhoea …

[HTML][HTML] Developing the concept of beneficial non-specific effect of live vaccines with epidemiological studies

P Aaby, CS Benn - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Epidemiological and immunological studies are increasingly reporting non-
specific effects (NSEs) of vaccines; ie vaccines may affect the risk and severity of non …

Routine vaccinations and child survival: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau, West AfricaCommentary: an unexpected finding that needs confirmation or rejection

I Kristensen, P Fine, P Aaby, H Jensen - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
Objective: To examine the association between routine childhood vaccinations and survival
among infants in Guinea-Bissau. Design: Follow up study. Participants: 15 351 women and …

Differences in female-male mortality after high-titre measles vaccine and association with subsequent vaccination with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and inactivated …

P Aaby, H Jensen, B Samb, B Cisse, M Sodemann… - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Background Females given high-titre measles vaccine (HTMV) have high mortality;
diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination might be associated with increased female …

Testing the hypothesis that diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis vaccine has negative non-specific and sex-differential effects on child survival in high-mortality countries

P Aaby, C Benn, J Nielsen, IM Lisse, A Rodrigues… - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background Measles vaccines (MV) have sex-differential effects on mortality not explained
by protection against measles infection. Objective The authors examined whether whole-cell …

Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at age 6 months and hospitalisation for infection before age 12 months: randomised controlled trial

AC Zimakoff, A Jensen, DM Vittrup, EH Herlufsen… - bmj, 2023 - bmj.com
Objective To test for potential non-specific effects of an additional, early measles, mumps,
and rubella (MMR) vaccine at age 5-7 months on risk of infection related hospitalisation …

Measles vaccines: a review of adverse events

P Duclos, BJ Ward - Drug safety, 1998 - Springer
A great deal of controversy has recently been generated over the publication of several
articles implicating measles vaccine in the induction of Crohn's disease and autism. The …

Measles: old vaccines, new vaccines

DE Griffin, CH Pan - Measles: Pathogenesis and Control, 2009 - Springer
Isolation of measles virus in tissue culture by Enders and colleagues in the 1960s led to the
development of the first measles vaccines. An inactivated vaccine provided only short-term …

Routine vaccinations and child survival in a war situation with high mortality: effect of gender

P Aaby, H Jensen, ML Garly, C Balé, C Martins, I Lisse - Vaccine, 2002 - Elsevier
Non-specific effects of vaccination may be different for boys and girls. Due to the sequential
administration of vaccines, it is difficult to separate the effect of different vaccines. We tested …

[PDF][PDF] The immunological basis for immunization series: module 7: measles: update 2020

World Health Organization - 2020 - apps.who.int
This module is part of the World Health Organization (WHO) series The immunological basis
for immunization, which was initially developed in 1993 as a set of eight modules …