Optimizing Immunity to Vaccines
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 572
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-specific (heterologous) effects of vaccines; health interventions; health intervention interaction; child mortality; global health; sex-differences; pediatrics
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2. International Collaborations & Initiatives, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3. Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: interferons; chemokines; infectious diseases; autoimmune diseases; antivirals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is increasing evidence that vaccines, in addition to their disease-specific effects, have important off-target or nonspecific effects (NSEs). A number of major attributes/observations with significant implications for child survival have been identified, and it is clear that immunological explanations are required to understand the mechanisms that determine the NSEs of vaccines. The aim of the Special Issue is to bring together epidemiologists, clinicians, and immunologists to document why and how vaccines may have NSEs and why they differ between sexes and at different ages. Examples of topics of interest include: NSEs of live and nonlive vaccines, innate immune training, heterologous immunity, effects of vaccines on the epigenome, sex differences in vaccine responses, off-target uses of vaccines, and vaccinations in the elderly and veterinary vaccinations.
Prof. Christine Stabell Benn
Prof. Eleanor N. Fish
Dr. Rebecca E. Chandler
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nonspecific effects
- innate immune training
- heterologous
- off-target
- sex differences
- aging
- immunoscenescence
- epigenetics
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