Determination of Optimal Antigen Yield and Virus Inactivation Conditions for the Production of the Candidate Foot-and-Mouth Disease Recombinant Vaccine Strain Asia1 Shamir-R in a B... by Jae Young Kim, Sun Young Park, Gyeongmin Lee, Sang Hyun Park, Jong-Sook Jin, Dohyun Kim, Jong-Hyeon Park, Seong-Yun Jeong, Young-Joon Ko

“…Since the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in South Korea in 2010–2011, vaccination policies utilizing inactivated FMD vaccines composed of types O and A have been implemented nationwide. …”
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Variability of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus and Associated Factors among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Michel Carlos Tommo Tchouaket, Aude Christelle Ka’e, Ezechiel Ngoufack Jagni Semengue, Samuel Martin Sosso, Rachel Kamgaing Simo, Bouba Yagai, Alex Durand Nka, Collins Ambe Chenwi, Aissatou Abba, Nadine Fainguem, Carlo-Federico Perno, Vittorio Colizzi, Joseph Fokam

“…The presence of several genotypes not covered by the vaccine is remarkable and suggests the need for revision of current vaccination policies to prevent HR-HPV infections.…”
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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of severe acute respiratory infections among hospitalized children under 5 years of age in a tertiary care center in Bangkok, Thailand, 20... by Nasamon Wanlapakorn, Ilada Thongpan, Nasiri Sarawanangkoor, Preeyaporn Vichaiwattana, Chompoonut Auphimai, Donchida Srimuan, Thaksaporn Thatsanathorn, Lalida Kongkiattikul, Stephen J. Kerr, Yong Poovorawan

“…This information is useful for diagnosis and treatment of ARIs, as well as implementation of appropriate infection control measures and guidance for future vaccine policy development.…”
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An ecological association of number of civil servants and physicians with prefectural-level rapid COVID-19 vaccination of older people in Japan by Kimiko Tomioka, Midori Shima, Keigo Saeki

“…This study may point the way to future areas of research on vaccine policies that include other age groups and infectious diseases.…”
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Vaccination as a Control Tool in Bovine Tuberculosis: Social Media Monitoring to Assess Public Response to Government Policy Development and Implementation by Frederika Dicks, Tatjana Marks, Emilie Karafillakis, Mark A Chambers

“…Both digital and social media can propagate healthcare misinformation and thus affect vaccine policy support. The use of social media monitoring to understand real-time public perceptions of One Health policies is crucial to identify misinformation and address public concerns appropriately to achieve successful policy implementation. …”
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Detection of Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Post-Vaccination in Health Care Workers of a Large Tertiary Hospital in Spain by Using a Rapid Test LFIC and sVNT-ELISA by José Tuells, Mónica Parra-Grande, Francisco J. Santos-Calle, Ana C. Montagud, Cecilia M. Egoavil, Celia García-Rivera, Pablo Caballero, Eva M. Gabaldón-Bravo, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Diaz, José Antonio Hurtado-Sánchez

“…We concluded that all Health Care Workers develop NAbs and the use of this rapid immunochromatographic test represents a potential tool to be used in population-based studies to detect serological antibody responses to vaccination. Vaccination policies could benefit from this tool to assess additional doses of vaccine or boosters among high-risk populations.…”
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A pilot intervention combining assessment and feedback with communication training and behavioral nudges to increase HPV vaccine uptake by Andrea Bradley-Ewing, Brian R. Lee, Jason N. Doctor, Georgann Meredith, Kathy Goggin, Angela Myers

“…Providers (n = 16) completed surveys regarding vaccine policies and parents (n = 215) reported on their child’s vaccine history and satisfaction with the consultation. …”
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The effect of perceived social support and health literacy on parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in preschool children: a cross-sectional study by Jiayue Chen, Quqing Wang, Nan Jiang, Yuxin Zhang, Ting Wang, He Cao, Yongyi Liu, Yonghui Yang, Jiwei Wang

“…The findings will provide insights for future intervention studies on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and inform the development of vaccination policies.…”
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Multi-method findings on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among urban refugee adolescents and youth in Kampala, Uganda by Carmen H. Logie, Moses Okumu, Isha Berry, Alyssa McAlpine, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Robert Hakiza, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Stefan Baral, Peter Kyambadde

“…Qualitative findings highlighted COVID-19 vaccine acceptability barriers and facilitators spanning social-ecological levels, including fear of side effects and mistrust (individual level), misinformed healthcare, community and family attitudes (community level), tailored COVID-19 services for refugees (organisational and practice setting), and political support for vaccines (policy environment). These data signal the urgent need to address social-ecological factors shaping COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among Kampala’s young urban refugees. …”
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Evaluation of vaccination status of health care workers for recommended vaccines and their acceptance of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines by Pembe Derin Oygar, Ayşe Büyükçam, Zumrut Sahbudak Bal, Nazan Dalgıç, Şefika Elmas Bozdemir, Adem Karbuz, Benhur Şirvan Çetin, Yalçın Kara, Ceren Çetin, Nevin Hatipoğlu, Hatice Uygun, Fatma Deniz Aygün, Selda Hançerli Törün, Dicle Şener Okur, Dilek Yılmaz Çiftdoğan, Tuğçe Tural Kara, Aysun Yahşi, Arife Özer, Sevliya Öcal Demir, Gülşen Akkoç, Cansu Turan, Enes Salı, Semra Şen, Emine Hafize Erdeniz, Soner Sertan Kara, Melike Emiroğlu, Tuğba Erat, Hacer Aktürk, Sibel Laçinel Gürlevik, Murat Sütçü, Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli Aydın, Başak Yıldız Atikan, Edanur Yeşil, Gizem Güner Özenen, Emel Çelebi, Kadir Efe, Didem Kizmaz isancli, Habibe Selver Durmuş, Seher Tekeli, Ayşe Karaaslan, Lida Bülbül, Habip Almış, Özge Kaba, Yıldız Ekemen Keleş, Bahadır Yazıcıoğlu, Serife Bahtiyar Oğuz, Hüsnü Fahri Ovalı, Hazal Helin Doğan, Solmaz Çelebi, Deniz Çakir, Burcugül Karasulu, Gülsüm Alkan, İrem Yenidoğan, Doruk Gül, Burcu Parıltan Kücükalioğlu, Gülhadiye Avcu, Musa Gürel Kukul, Melis Bilen, Belma Yaşar, Tuğba Üstün, Ömer Kılıç, Yasemin Akın, Sinem Oral Cebeci, İbrahim Hakan Bucak, Mehpare Sarı Yanartaş, Aslıhan Şahin, Sertaç Arslanoglu, Murat Elevli, Rabia Çoban, Sadiye Kübra Tuter Öz, Halil Hatipoğlu, İlyas Tolga Erkum, Mehmet Turgut, Asuman Demirbuğa, Taha Özçelik, Diclehan Çiftçi, Emine Ergül Sarı, Gökhan Akkuş, Sadık Sami Hatipoğlu, Ener Cağrı Dinleyici, Mustafa Hacimustafaoğlu, Ferda Özkınay, Zafer Kurugöl, Ali Bulent Cengiz, Ayper Somer, Hasan Tezer, Ateş Kara

“…HCW vaccination rates are not optimal in many countries; hence, compulsory vaccination policies have been implemented in some countries. …”
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Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a sequential pneumococcal vaccination compared to single-dose vaccination strategy for adults in Hong Kong by Jessica J. P. Shami, Swathi Pathadka, Esther W. Chan, Jennifer Hui, Reiko Sato, Shilpa Patil, Xue Li

“…In the deterministic SA, the base-case results were robust for tested parameter uncertainties. Future vaccination policies should consider the cost-effectiveness of a sequential vaccination strategy as a measure to reduce the vaccine-preventable pneumococcal disease burden in Hong Kong.…”
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Simulation applications to support teaching and research in epidemiological dynamics by Wayne M Getz, Richard Salter, Ludovica Luisa Vissat

“…Results We take the reader through simulations used to demonstrate the following concepts: 1) disease prevalence curves of unmitigated outbreaks have a single peak and result in epidemics that ‘burn’ through the population to become extinguished when the proportion of the susceptible population drops below a critical level; 2) if immunity in recovered individuals wanes sufficiently fast then the disease persists indefinitely as an endemic state, with possible dampening oscillations following the initial outbreak phase; 3) the steepness and initial peak of the prevalence curve are influenced by the basic reproductive value R 0, which must exceed 1 for an epidemic to occur; 4) the probability that a single infectious individual in a closed population (i.e. no migration) gives rise to an epidemic increases with the value of R 0>1; 5) behavior that adaptively decreases the contact rate among individuals with increasing prevalence has major effects on the prevalence curve including dramatic flattening of the prevalence curve along with the generation of multiple prevalence peaks; 6) the impacts of treatment are complicated to model because they effect multiple processes including transmission, recovery and mortality; 7) the impacts of vaccination policies, constrained by a fixed number of vaccination regimens and by the rate and timing of delivery, are crucially important to maximizing the ability of vaccination programs to reduce mortality. …”
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Vaccine effectiveness and duration of protection against symptomatic infections and severe Covid-19 outcomes in adults aged 50 years and over, France, January to mid-December 2021 by Milena Suarez Castillo, Hamid Khaoua, Noémie Courtejoie

“…A thorough characterization of vaccine protection and its duration in time is needed to inform vaccination policies and enhance public trust. Methods: We linked three national databases with exhaustive information on screening, vaccination and hospitalizations in France from January 1st to December 12, 2021. …”
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Determinants of hepatitis B vaccination status in health care workers of two secondary care hospitals of Sindh, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study by Salman Muhammad Soomar, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Syed Iqbal Azam, Mairaj Shah

“…Hepatitis B vaccination should be made a job entry requirement to achieve more complete vaccination numbers. Vaccination policies require to implement for all part-timers and full-timer health care workers.…”
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Epidemiologic Factors in Pediatric Diarrhea Caused by Rotaviruses: Five-year Surveillance in Izmir, Turkey by Fulya BAYINDIR BİLMAN, Mevliye YETİK

“…For pediatric age group, considering vaccination policies against rotaviruses are important in terms of developing countries in order to be able to prevent the infections that can result in death and cause severe sequelae.…”
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Attitudes towards HPV and COVID school-entry policies among adults living in Puerto Rico by Jessica N. Rivera-Rivera, Olga L. Díaz-Miranda, Diana T. Medina-Laabes, Erick Suárez, Ana P. Ortiz, Vivian Colón-López

“…Participants answered questions about HPV and COVID vaccines, attitudes toward vaccination policies for school-entry, and perceptions of sources of information. …”
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Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination: Focus on the Italian Situation by Giovanni Gabutti, Erica d’Anchera, Francesco De Motoli, Marta Savio, Armando Stefanati

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Socio-psychological factors driving adult vaccination: a qualitative study. by Wheelock, A, Parand, A, Rigole, B, Thomson, A, Miraldo, M, Vincent, C, Sevdalis, N

“…To maximize the public health impact of adult vaccines, policy should be better translated into high vaccination rates through evidence-based implementation approaches.…”

The use of dried cerebrospinal fluid filter paper spots as a substrate for PCR diagnosis of the aetiology of bacterial meningitis in the Lao PDR by Elliott, I, Dittrich, S, Paris, D, Sengduanphachanh, A, Phoumin, P, Newton, P

“…Dried CSF filter paper spots could potentially help us to better understand the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in resource-poor settings and guide empirical treatments and vaccination policies. </p> …”

Progress towards eliminating Hib in Australia: an evaluation of Haemophilus influenzae type b prevention in Australia, 1 July 1993 to 30 June 2000. by Horby, P, Gilmour, R, Wang, H, McIntyre, P

“…This forms the background to a change in national vaccine policy, from the use of two Hib vaccines to the use of PRP-OMP only throughout Australia from May 2000. …”