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Vaccines against seasonal influenza available in the USA are of two kinds: the inactivated one, to be administered intramuscularly, and the live attenuated one, to be nasally nebulized. Now, the results of a double-blinded trial, performed in Michigan during 2007-2008 seasonal influenza, sponsored [...]
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recently approved the vaccination schedule for adults, after examining data on epidemiology, on vaccine safety and efficacy, on cost-benefit ratio and on practicability. The new recommendations include the following fundamental [...]
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Randomized studies analyzing in human beings the problem of antibiotic resistance are not many. Since the problem was prevalently dealt with in animal studies, some researchers have randomized 224 healthy young adults to receive azithromycin (500 mg/die for three days), clarithromycin (500 mg twice [...]
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In 1989, the recommendation to perform a second dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was introduced to obtain an effective and long-lasting immunization. Since the infant vaccination schedule has been more and more enriched becoming complex, public opinion pointed at the possible danger of a [...]