Infectious Disease5 articles

Impact 2

An exploratory study to determine the feasibility and processes needed to implement the Immunization Neighborhood to increase HPV vaccination among African American adolescents and adolescents in the general population: A multi-partner perspective.

Published: 2026-12-01

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

MediLens Indexed: 2026-05-23

This study investigates the barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccination among African American adolescents through the Immunization Neighborhood (IN) initiative, which aims to enhance collaboration among healthcare providers. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 30 parent-child dyads and 37...

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Impact 3

A Spatially Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor for Multiplexed and High-Throughput Detection of HFMD Viruses via Parallel Entropy-Driven Circuits and Combinatorial Photonic Crystal Arrays.

Published: 2026-05-22

ACS sensors

MediLens Indexed: 2026-05-23

This study presents a novel fluorescence biosensing platform for the ultrasensitive detection of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) viruses, specifically Enterovirus 71, Coxsackievirus A6, and Coxsackievirus A16. The platform utilizes a combinatorial photonic crystal array and parallel entropy-driven...

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Prevalence of group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnant women and serotype specific immunity among mother-newborns dyads in Ghana and Zimbabwe.

Published: 2026-05-22

Vaccine

MediLens Indexed: 2026-05-23

This study investigated the prevalence of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonization in pregnant women and its association with stillbirths in Ghana and Zimbabwe. Among 1238 participants, GBS colonization rates were 15.6% in Ghana and 15.2% in Zimbabwe, with GBS found in 33.3% of stillbirths. Mater...

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Quantitative assessment of neutrophil chemotactic migration under coexisting intermediate and terminal chemokine gradients in a microfluidic environment: Applications for immune dysfunction and prognostic evaluation in sepsis.

Published: 2026-05-22

Analytica chimica acta

MediLens Indexed: 2026-05-23

The study presents a novel Dual-gradient Neutrophil Chemotaxis chip (DNC-chip) designed to assess neutrophil migration in sepsis. This chip can generate paired chemokine gradients, allowing for high-throughput analysis. The findings suggest that the DNC-chip could improve immune monitoring and ri...

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Safety of the adjuvanted herpes zoster subunit vaccine in people over 18 years of age living with HIV: A phase 4 multicentre study.

Published: 2026-05-22

Vaccine

MediLens Indexed: 2026-05-23

This study evaluated the safety and tolerability of the HZ/su vaccine in people living with HIV (PLWH). A total of 237 participants were monitored for adverse events (AEs) within 10 days of vaccination. Results showed that 82.7% experienced at least one AE, but grade 3 events were rare, and 99.6%...

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Infectious Disease5 articles

An exploratory study to determine the feasibility and processes needed to implement the Immunization Neighborhood to increase HPV vaccination among African American adolescents and adolescents in the general population: A multi-partner perspective.

A Spatially Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor for Multiplexed and High-Throughput Detection of HFMD Viruses via Parallel Entropy-Driven Circuits and Combinatorial Photonic Crystal Arrays.

Prevalence of group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnant women and serotype specific immunity among mother-newborns dyads in Ghana and Zimbabwe.

Quantitative assessment of neutrophil chemotactic migration under coexisting intermediate and terminal chemokine gradients in a microfluidic environment: Applications for immune dysfunction and prognostic evaluation in sepsis.

Safety of the adjuvanted herpes zoster subunit vaccine in people over 18 years of age living with HIV: A phase 4 multicentre study.

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