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Deuterium Oxide Effects on Thermostability of Vaccines
Live-attenuated vaccines such as polio, influenza, yellow fever, measle, and mump vaccines are made up of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and...
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Vaccines and Oncolytic Virus for the Treatment of Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the most prevalent cause of cancer deaths in men and women, with a 5-year survival rate of fewer than 15% due to late-stage diagnosis...
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Novel Cancer Treatment Using Oncolytic Virus Therapy
Oncolytic viruses are a unique group of viruses that – either naturally or through genetic modification – induce the destruction of cancer cells....
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Prophylactic strategies to control chikungunya virus infection
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a (re)emerging arbovirus and the causative agent of chikungunya fever. In recent years, CHIKV was responsible for a...
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Vaccine promotion strategies in community pharmacy addressing vulnerable populations: a sco** review
ContextSocial determinants of health are drivers of vaccine inequity and lead to higher risks of complications from infectious diseases in under...
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Population in Premodern Eastern Asia
Cases of revolutionary population growths and population collapses during the agrarian period are discussed. Population estimates for premodern...
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ADRAS: Airborne Disease Risk Assessment System for Closed Environments
Airborne diseases are easy to spread in any population. The advent of COVID-19 showed us that we are not prepared to control them. The pandemic has...
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COVID arm that appeared in the contralateral upper extremity after mRNA-1273 booster inoculation
We report the findings of a 60-year-old female patient with metastatic breast cancer who presented with severe edema and neuralgia in the...
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Other Viral Infections of the Skin
Viral infections of the skin are common at any age. This chapter discusses smallpox viruses, picornaviruses, classical infectious diseases, and...
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Immune-mediated cerebellitis following SARS-CoV-2 infection—a case report and review of the literature
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be associated with a wide variety of neurological manifestations. Some of these manifestations might...
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Comparative study on molecular epidemiology of measles H1 outbreak and sporadic cases in Shandong Province, 2013–2019
BackgroundMeasles caused by measles virus (MeV) is a highly contagious viral disease which has also been associated with complications including...
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Immune response in COVID-19: what is next?
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a global pandemic for more than 2 years and it still impacts our daily lifestyle and quality in...
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SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerase as target for antiviral therapy
A new human coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 was identified in several cases of acute respiratory syndrome in Wuhan, China in December 2019. On March 11...
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Potential “biopeptidal” therapeutics for severe respiratory syndrome coronaviruses: a review of antiviral peptides, viral mechanisms, and prospective needs
Although great advances have been made on large-scale manufacturing of vaccines and antiviral-based drugs, viruses persist as the major cause of...
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mRNA vaccination in breast cancer: current progress and future direction
Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination has proven to be highly successful in combating Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has recently sparked...
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Vaccination
The importance of global vaccines for various infectious agents has been emphasized through our experience with the current COVID-19 vaccine....
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Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a vital nutrient for a variety of biological processes including vision, growth, reproduction, development and regulation of immune...
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Elevated plasma interleukin-8 as a risk factor for mortality in children presenting with cerebral malaria
BackgroundCerebral malaria (CM) is a neuropathology which remains one of the deadliest forms of malaria among African children. The kinetics of the...
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Clonal structure, stability and dynamics of human memory B cells and circulating plasmablasts
Memory B cells persist for a lifetime and rapidly differentiate into antibody-producing plasmablasts and plasma cells upon antigen re-encounter. The...
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Diseases of the Oral Mucosa in Infants, Children and Adolescents
The oral mucosa is frequently affected in childhood related to diverse diseases, which are seen by varies disciplines. These are associated to...