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OBJECTIVES: To determine whether current influenza vaccination is associated with reduced risk of major vascular events in patients with recent ischemic stroke or TIA of mainly atherothrombotic origin. METHODS: Data were pooled from 2 prospective cohort studies, the OPTIC Registry (n = 3,635) and...

Bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV; types 1 and 3) is expected to replace trivalent OPV (tOPV) globally by April, 2016, preceded by the introduction of at least one dose of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in routine immunisation programmes to eliminate vaccine-associated or vaccine-deriv...

In recent years, yellow fever (YF) outbreaks have struck various African and South American countries, a scenario, which led to the creation of the “Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics” initiative by the WHO [1]. The current Brazilian outbreak is the largest, both in human and epizootic cases in dec...