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Prophylactic vaccination against post splenectomy infections was given two weeks before surgery.
Prophylactic vaccination reduced the acute phase symptoms, as estimated by parasitemia and mortality.
Questionnaires were distributed to hospital and com munity RNs in August, which is outside the recommended time-frame for seasonal prophylactic vaccination (Australian Influenza Specialist Group, 2007b), thus ensuring that those who normally had the influenza vaccine would have already been vaccinated.
Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus infection and disease in women: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
Prophylactic vaccination to chickens with fowl pox or pigeon Pox virus has been widely used for prevention of disease.
* A well-organised effort to offer prophylactic vaccination to the whole population will hold tremendous benefit for future generations of women.
Therefore, in order to incorporate the therapeutic intervention along with prophylactic vaccination, several attempts were made to develop chimeric vaccines (35,36).
The women involved in these trials fell within the target age range for prophylactic vaccination, with ages from 15 to 26 years.
The application of control policies, ranging from stamping out to emergency and prophylactic vaccination, are discussed on the basis of data generated in recent outbreaks, and in the light of new regulations, also in view of the maintenance of good animal welfare.