This randomized controlled trial compared an inactivated (injectable) influenza vaccine with a live-attenuated (nasal spray) influenza virus vaccine and with placebos. These investigators conducted ...

In 24 children immunized with inactivated or attenuated measles-virus vaccines, responses of serum antibody (characterized by density-gradient ultracentrifugation and radioimmunodiffusion studies) ...

Induction of local antibody responses to influenza A virus hemagglutinin by coadministration of two vaccines was investigated. Fifty elderly nursing home residents received inactivated trivalent ...

Chicken-embryo-adapted duck plague virus was inactivated in 3 hours with 0.05% 1-acetylaziridine (AEI), and in 1/2 hour with 0.4% beta-propiolactone (BPL). Several preparations of ...

In the world of virology, the nomenclature of war comes easy. The human body is a citadel that relies on the immune system to defend it. A virus is an attacking army that does everything it can to ...

The world can't return to normal without safe and effective vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus along with a coordinated global vaccination programme. Researchers have been racing to develop ...

There are many different ways to make a vaccine. Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Inovio, and Moderna are all taking different approaches to tackle COVID-19, the Wuhan coronavirus. As the Wuhan coronavirus ...

As dengue has become a greater threat to public health, scientists have made progress in their search for dengue fever treatments. What strides have scientists made in developing vaccines and ...

This school year has seen concerns about the spread of COVID-19, and soon the start of influenza season brings another potential illness that may spread among classmates, teachers and their families ...

AMES, Iowa – Recently published veterinary research at Iowa State University shows that influenza vaccines administered in the upper respiratory system of pigs are more effective in some key respects ...

This is Part III in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Hopefully we can use what we have learned from both the success and ...