Dear Reader,
This is the last printed issue of Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, which has become fully Open Access with all content published online, freely accessible to everyone, everywhere. Please see tandfonline.com/khvi for all HV&I articles.
We start with a rich section on Coronavirus with 55 articles:
Three reviews summarize monitoring of vaccine safety in pregnancy by US CDC (Moro, p 4705), different vaccines’ efficacies against SARS-CoV-2 variants (Joshi, p 4714), and sex differences in vaccine effectiveness (Zhu, p 4741).
The research articles investigate the impact of prior infection status on vaccine responses (Milazzo, p 4747), adverse events in healthcare workers (HCWs) (Filippatos, p 4755), intention to receive the vaccine in southeastern US (Cunningham-Erves, p 4761), in Chinese caregivers (Feng, p 4799 & Lin, p 4806), in Thailand (Boon-itt, p 4816), among Vietnamese (Le An, p 4823) and Chinese (Wang, p 4829) students, in risk groups in Ethiopia (Asmare, p 4838), in Chinese HCWs (Ye, p 4846), among caregivers in Saudi Arabia (Samannodi, p 4857), in Pakistan (Sarwar, p 4857), in elderly with chronic diseases (Wang, p 4873), in Canada, US and Israel (Goldman, p 4809), among midwifery students (Özçoban, p 4896), willingness to pay for the vaccine in India (Das, p 4904), acceptance among Chinese students (Jiang, p 4914) and Ethiopian HCWs (Ayele, p 4925), impact of pandemic lockdown on routine vaccination in Pakistan (Rahman, p 4934), predictors of vaccine uptake (Mayer, p 4941), coverage among HCWs in China (Zheng, p 4946), perceptions of potential continuous vaccination (Zhu, p 4954), uptake among HIV patients (Zhao, p 4964 & Zheng, p 4971), hesitancy among Kazakh students (Bolatov, p 4982), Japanese parents (Yoda, p 4993), solid organ transplant recipients (Chen, p 4999), subjects receiving anticoagulants (Magon, p 5007), US youth (Willis, p 5013), patients with lung disease (Zhuang, p 5016), the impact of pandemic’s second wave on vaccine acceptance in India (Anandraj, p 5024), hesitancy in nursing students (Yesiltepe, p 5030), rheumatic patients (Guaracha-Basañez, p 5038), among Chinese HCWs in regard to their social networks (Xu, p 5048), in Ghana (Addo, p 5063), acceptance among industrial workers in China (Yin, p 5069), HCWs in Morocco (Khalis, p 5076), children and adolescents in France (Verger, p 5082), students in Bangladesh (Hossain, p 5089), preference regarding vaccination timing among recipients in France (Le Maréchal, p 5099), vaccine-induced complacency in adherence to precautionary behavior (Chanfu, p 5105), and adverse-event reporting in US newspapers (Basch, p 5114).
Three case reports highlight subacute thyroiditis (Sözen, p 5120), vestibular neuritis (Jeong, p 5126), and a case of false positive in hypermetabolic lymphadenopathy screening (Landete, p 5129) following Covid-19 vaccination.
Three commentaries discuss the change in calculated vaccine effectiveness when accounting for asymptomatic cases (Junghans, p 5133), heterologous prime-boost vaccination (Choudhary, p 5135), and ways to increase acceptance (Serwaa, p 5139).
Four Letters to the Editor report on knowledge and acceptability of new vaccines (Alfaleh, p 5142), the impact of emerging variants on public-health responses (Singh, p 5145), new assay for measuring vaccine-induced cell immunity (Tychala, p 5148), and interactions in Covid-19 and filariasis co-infections (Sinha, p 5150).
Twelve research articles on Acceptance report on hesitancy among Chinese parents (Zhang, p 5153) and Venezuelan students (Andrade, p 5162), facilitators of vaccination in parents of adopted children (Hallgren, p 5168), adapting of the vaccine hesitancy scale for Turkey (Aslan, p 5176) and youth (Olarewaju, p 5183), attitudes to childhood vaccine refusal among university faculty (Yigit, p 5191), development of a new questionnaire regarding views of childhood vaccination (Abdul Kadir, p 5196), vaccination rates among migrants in China (Wang, p 6205), association of parental sources of vaccine information and uptake of infant vaccines (Gilchrist, p 5214), sociodemographic correlates of uptake in children (Islam, p 5226), vaccination of preterm children in a Chinese hospital (Jin, p 5235), and factors associated with acceptance in England (Goffe, p 5242).
The Licensed Vaccines section presents three reviews on lessons from the history of vaccine development (Kayser, p 5255), nonspecific effects of pediatric vaccines (Omar, p 5269), and BCG vaccination strategies (Qu, p 5284), research articles on long-term efficacy of recombinant zoster vaccine (Curran, p 5296), risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome following herpes zoster (Anderson, p 5304), effectiveness of one- and two-dose varicella vaccination (Hu, p 5311), effectiveness of post-exposure varicella vaccination (Chen, p 5316), safety of TDaP vaccine in pregnancy (Switzer, p 5325), cross-neutralization of immunity elicited by the Coxsackievirus A10 vaccine strains (Huo, p 5334), immunogenicity and safety of co-administered inactivated EV71 and MMR vaccines (Liu, p 5348), the amount of anti-rabies antibodies necessary for post-exposure prophylaxis (Haradanhalli, p 5355), effect of measles prevalence and vaccine uptake on other infections (Sato, p 5316), and economic burden of measles in China (Chen, p 5367), two commentaries on 40 years of experience with MMR vaccine (Kuter, p 5372) and measles vaccination of special groups (Papaevangelou, p 5384), and a Letter to the Editor on mandatory vaccination of HCWs (Di Lorenzo, p 5388).
We introduce ten HPV articles on disparities in vaccine uptake in US (Goel, p 5390), social media-based strategies for distribution of vaccine information (Thompson, p 5397), vaccination programs from the managers’ perspective (Grabert, p 5402), vaccination coverage among men who have sex in US (Amiling, p 5407) and Canada (Grewal, p 5413), predictors of vaccine uptake in Chinese students (Xu, p 5426) and Christian parents in US (Olagoke, p 5433), epidemiology of infection in Chinese women (Han, p 5439), post-licensure safety of quadrivalent vaccine (Hu, p 5447), and discussing HPV and oropharyngeal cancer in the dental setting (Daley, p 5454).
The Influenza section includes a review of severity scores for infected adults (Adams, p 5460), immunogenicity and safety trial of a quadrivalent high-dose inactivated vaccine (Pepin, p 5475), a review of strategies to improve vaccine uptake in Australia (Mohammed, p 5487), a survey of attitudes in Chinese HCWs (Luo, p 5500) and among cancer patients (Kosaka, p 5509), assessment of patterns of mortality among Italian elderly (Fallani, p 5514), analysis of impact of repeated vaccination in elderly patients (Pang, p 5522), and a case report on laryngeal myasthenia gravis following vaccination (Wang, p 5529).
The Immunotherapy segment presents reviews of Fc-antibody engineering for improved antiviral responses (Nawab, p 5532) and the use of PAMPS and DAMPS in cancer vaccines (Sun, p 5546), identification of neoantigens in pediatric leukemia (Thakur, p 5558), analysis of baseline immunity as predictor of dendritic-cell vaccination in pancreatic cancer (Ota, p 5563), and Letters to the Editor on a computational approach in the development of personalized cancer vaccines (Maserat, p 5573) and antibody-drug conjugates for cancer immunotherapy (Perego, p 5575).
Four research articles on Hepatitis B investigate determinants of vaccination status in Pakistani HCWs (Soomar, p 5579), optimal interval for post-vaccination serological testing in infants (Huang, p 5585), immunogenicity of one vaccine dose in low-birth-weight infants (Tüfekci, p 5590), and a vaccination program for Indian students and researchers (Malik, p 5595).
The Meningococcal section features a modeling study of different vaccination strategies (Graña, p 5603), a report on the evolution of strain coverage by the 4CMenB vaccine in France (Hong, p 5614), and an estimate of the impact of hurricane Maria on the uptake of MCV and other vaccines in Puerto Rico (Colón-López, p 5623).
Two Pneumococcal articles include a review of epidemiology of non-vaccine strains (Du, p 5628), and a report on the burden of community-acquired pneumonia in southern China (Jiang, p 5638).
Three articles on Rotavirus investigate the impact of vaccination on child hospitalizations in Italy (Dettori, p 5646), effectiveness of self-financed vaccination in Japan (Ito, p 5650), and a preclinical trial of maternal immunization (Yin, p 5656).
Finally, we are happy to present a review of the development of the Chinese vaccine Production industry during the last decade (Wang, p 5666).
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Ronald Ellis, PhD
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Adam Weiss, PhD
Acquisitions Editor