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12 December 2016
Bandim researchers working in Guinea Bissau have found that 20-dose BCG vaccine vials hold less doses of their vital content than anticipated.
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28 November 2016
WHO recently conducted a review to evaluate BHP researchers' hypothesis that vaccines - beyond their disease protective effect - may also have so-called "non-specific" effects on the immune system, which may have important implications for overa...
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11 November 2016
Biostatistics in Guinea-Bissau – postdoc or research assistant. Deadline: 9th of December 2016
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1 November 2016
"Immune modulating effects of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination at birth – Vaccine specific antibody responses and in vitro cytokine production"
By Thomas Nørrelykke Nissen, Department of Paediatrics, Copenhagen University Hos...
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1 November 2016
"Non-specific effects of early BCG to low-birth-weight infants"
By Sofie Biering-Sørensen, Bandim Health Project & Center for Vitamins and Vaccines (CVIVA), Statens Serum Institut
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10 October 2016
Our article on how live vaccines against measles (MV), tuberculosis (BCG), polio (OPV) and smallpox reduce mortality more than explained by target-disease prevention is now published in EBioMedicine.
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29 August 2016
Friday we celebrated the end of our EU FP7 grant with an Optimunise meeting in Accra (after a morning run).
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28 July 2016
We are very happy to inform that last Friday our IT Assistant Ibraima Baldé graduated.
Many congratulations on his diploma!
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26 July 2016
In addition to the targeted effects, vaccines may also have non-specific effects (NSEs) on child mortality. The NSEs are often sex-differential. Hence, changes in sex-differences in child mortality by vaccination status is important in assessing the ...
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26 July 2016
We assessed the effect of two BCG strains (Danish and Russian) on childhood morbidity and BCG scarification in Guinea-Bissau.
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19 May 2016
The first results from Signe Sørups Postdoc studies on Danish children show that oral polio vaccine is associated with lower rate of admissions with infections.
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12 May 2016
Following the publication of the paper “Is the timing of recommended childhood vaccines evidence based?” in the BMJ (see http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i867), scientists and public health practitioners have debated to which extend the...
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11 May 2016
What if we affected health negatively when we phased out the two vaccines against smallpox and tuberculosis in the 1970s and 1980s in Denmark? Studies on non-specific effects of vaccines indicate that such live attenuated vaccines may reduce morbidit...
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3 May 2016
Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen is pleased to announce that most of the articles concerning The Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP) have been published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID).
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28 April 2016
One of the four lectures today is Andreas Rieckmann from CVIVA/Bandim.
He will give the presentation: ”Positive bivirkninger af vaccinerne mod tuberkulose og kopper”
Place: Copenhagen City Hall
Registration on email: er...
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28 April 2016
The RTS,S vaccine is modestly effective at reducing clinical malaria in children and was recently approved by EMA. However, the subsequent release of the overall mortality data worryingly show that the vaccine is associated with increased overall mor...
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16 March 2016
"Lessons for the past and for the future? En gentolkning af infektioner og vaccinationer"
Time: 16 March 19.30
Place: Auditoriet, Kirurgisk Akademi, Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62
The presentation is in Danish!
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23 February 2016
The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) has selected Dr Sanne Jespersen for one of the Young Investigator Awards for Research in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases for 2016.
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22 February 2016
Christian Wejse has conducted major research on tuberculosis at the Bandim Health Project in Guinea Bissau for several years. He has developed the Bandim TBscore – a simple tool that can describe disease severity in tuberculosis patients and ma...