Pediatric infectious diseases in India: The current status and the way forward

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-100
Author(s):  
Vijay Yewale
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Summary and Recommendations from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Workshop “Gonorrhea Vaccines: the Way Forward”

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 656-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee M. Wetzler ◽  
Ian M. Feavers ◽  
Scott D. Gray-Owen ◽  
Ann E. Jerse ◽  
Peter A. Rice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Hazard Level ◽  
The One ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThere is an urgent need for the development of an antigonococcal vaccine due to the increasing drug resistance found in this pathogen. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have identified multidrug-resistant gonococci (GC) as among 3 “urgent” hazard-level threats to the U.S. population. In light of this, on 29 to 30 June 2015, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) sponsored a workshop entitled “Gonorrhea Vaccines: the Way Forward.” The goal of the workshop was to gather leaders in the field to discuss several key questions on the current status of gonorrhea vaccine research and the path forward to a licensed gonorrhea vaccine. Representatives from academia, industry, U.S. Government agencies, and a state health department were in attendance. This review summarizes each of the 4 scientific sessions and a series of 4 breakout sessions that occurred during the one and a half days of the workshop. Topics raised as high priority for future development included (i) reinvigoration of basic research to understand gonococcal infection and immunity to allow intervention in processes essential for infection; (ii) clinical infection studies to establish parallels and distinctions betweenin vitroand animal infection models versus natural human genital and pharyngeal infection and to informin silicomodeling of vaccine impact; and (iii) development of an integrated pipeline for preclinical and early clinical evaluation and direct comparisons of potential vaccine antigens and adjuvants and routes of delivery.

scholarly journals Natural killer cells as a therapeutic tool for infectious diseases - current status and future perspectives

Oncotarget ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (29) ◽  
pp. 20891-20907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislaw Schmidt ◽  
Lars Tramsen ◽  
Bushra Rais ◽  
Evelyn Ullrich ◽  
Thomas Lehrnbecher
Keyword(s):  
Natural Killer Cells ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Natural Killer ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Therapeutic Tool ◽  
Killer Cells

scholarly journals Overview of Plant-Derived Vaccine Antigens: Dengue Virus

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra B Malabadi ◽  
Advaita Ganguly ◽  
Jaime A Teixeira da Silva ◽  
Archana Parashar ◽  
Mavanur R Suresh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Dengue Virus ◽  
Neutralizing Antibodies ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Human Immune Deficiency Virus ◽  
Dengue Vaccine ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Vaccine Antigens

ABSTRACT - This review highlights the advantages and current status of plant-derived vaccine development with special reference to the dengue virus. There are numerous problems involved in dengue vaccine development, and there is no vaccine against all four dengue serotypes. Dengue vaccine development using traditional approaches has not been satisfactory in terms of inducing neutralizing antibodies. Recently, these issues were addressed by showing a very good response to inducing neutralizing antibodies by plant-derived dengue vaccine antigens. This indicates the feasibility of using plant-derived vaccine antigens as a low-cost method to combat dengue and other infectious diseases. The application of new methods and strategies such as dendritic cell targeting in cancer therapy, severe acute respiratory syndrome, tuberculosis, human immune deficiency virus, and malaria might play an important role. These new methods are more efficient than traditional protocols. It is expected that in the near future, plant-derived vaccine antigens or antibodies will play an important role in the control of human infectious diseases. This article is open to POST-PUBLICATION REVIEW. Registered readers (see “For Readers”) may comment by clicking on ABSTRACT on the issue’s contents page.

Application of Web 2.0 Tools in Libraries in Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 85-112
Author(s):  
Tom Kwanya ◽  
Christine Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Reality Check ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Current Impact ◽  
The Way

The emergence of Web 2.0, the read/write social web, has prompted a momentous change in the way library users seek information, communicate, and collaborate. This trend is affecting the usability and relevance of libraries as the epicentres of information and knowledge. It is essential, therefore, that libraries adopt this technology to fit their services and products as closely as possible to the emerging lifestyles of the users. The application of Web 2.0 tools to conceptualise and deliver library services in developed countries is widely documented. In Africa, however, literature on this subject remains scanty. The authors conducted a reality check of the current status of the application of Web 2.0 tools in libraries, assessed the current impact of Web 2.0 on library services, identified the challenges African libraries face while adopting Web 2.0, and proposed ways to use Web 2.0 tools effectively in libraries in Africa.

Oxygen Reduction Reactions of Fe-N-C Catalysts: Current Status and the Way Forward

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hangjia Shen ◽  
Tiju Thomas ◽  
Sefiu Abolaji Rasaki ◽  
Ali Saad ◽  
Chun Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Reduction ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Reduction Reactions ◽  
Oxygen Reduction Reactions ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Emerging Natural Focal Infectious Diseases in Russia: A Medical–Geographical Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 8005
Author(s):  
Svetlana Malkhazova ◽  
Polina Pestina ◽  
Anna Prasolova ◽  
Dmitry Orlov
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Spotted Fever ◽  
Hemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Ixodid Tick ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Current Status ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
West Nile Fever ◽  
The North

In Russia, as in other countries, the problem of emerging natural focal infectious diseases (EIDs) became more acute toward the end of the 20th century. However, the situation in Russia is unknown to foreign readers, while the prevention and control of these diseases require international collaboration. The aim of the study is to provide a medical–geographical assessment of the distribution of the main natural focal EIDs in Russia, as well as to present the approaches used in the country to create aggregate maps of risk assessment. To consider its current status, we determined the most important natural focal EIDs for Russia (tick-borne encephalitis, ixodid tick-borne borrelioses, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever, West Nile fever, Astrakhan spotted fever, leptospiroses, and tularemia) and analyzed the patterns of their epidemic manifestation. As a result, a working classification of such infections and a series of maps showing the current situation of EID morbidity in Russia were created. To design an aggregated risk map, we developed an original mapping methodology and recalculated the model disease incidence by taking data from administrative units and adjusting them for natural geographical boundaries (biomes) for European Russia, and then evaluated the risk of infection for separate model diseases and for a set of them. The highest risk rates are confined to the northwest regions of European Russia, the Cis-Urals and the Volga region, which are naturally related to forest biomes, as well as to the southern steppe regions of the interfluves between the Volga and the Don, and the foothills of the North Caucasus.

European SST landscape: Current status and challenges on the way ahead

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-129
Author(s):  
Tomas Hrozensky ◽  
Marek Dvoracek
Keyword(s):  
Current Status ◽  
The Way

Malaria: Paving the way to developing peptide-based vaccines against invasion in infectious diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 527 (4) ◽  
pp. 1021-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Reyes ◽  
Jessica Molina-Franky ◽  
Jorge Aza-Conde ◽  
Carlos F. Suárez ◽  
Laura Pabón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
The Way
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