Background: High rate of childhood vaccination drop-outs is a significant public health problem in rural areas of developing countries especially in Nigeria. The reasons for immunisation drop-out are poorly understood and little or no data is available to explain the phenomenon t...
Background: Missed immunisation, immunisation drop-out and coverage rates at primary health care (PHC) level indicate the level at which communities utilise the preventive services and thus serve as a measure of the strength of the public health system. They also measure the effe...
Thuc Anh Nguyen, Angkarina Angkasuwan, Claudia Rossi, Frans J. Van Overveld & Ger T. Rijkers·Asian Journal of Immunology·2018
Bacteria and viruses use an array of evasion mechanisms to escape from the host immune system. Due to antigenic variation, pathogenic micro-organisms can escape the immune system. Micro-organisms can occur in different types, such as the 97 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae....