Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Solveig A. Cunningham, Nida Shaikh, Ariel Nhacolo, Pratima L. Raghunathan et al.
Health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) provide a foundation for characterizing and defining priorities and strategies for improving population health. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project aims to inform policy to prevent child deaths through generating...
Amanda L. Wilkinson, Khalequ Zaman, Masuma Hoque, Concepción F. Estívariz et al.
Background Novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) was developed by modifying the Sabin strain to increase genetic stability and reduce risk of seeding new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreaks. Bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV; containing Sabin types 1 and 3) is the vac...
Cynthia J. Snider, Khalequ Zaman, Amanda L. Wilkinson, Asma Binte Aziz et al.
Background: To inform response strategies, we examined type 1 humoral and intestinal immunity induced by 1) one fractional inactivated poliovirus vaccine (fIPV) dose given with monovalent oral poliovirus vaccine (mOPV1), and 2) mOPV1 versus bivalent OPV (bOPV). Methods: We conducted a randomized, co...
British Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee
This report covers the period May–September 2006 and is the first to follow publication of the most recent checklist: The British List: A Checklist of Birds of Britain (7th edition) that appeared in Ibis 148: 526–563. The 33rd Report appeared in Ibis 148: 594. The BOU website includes BOURC Reports,...