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The Italian arm of the PREPARE study: an international project to evaluate and license a maternal vaccine against group B streptococcus
| العنوان: | The Italian arm of the PREPARE study: an international project to evaluate and license a maternal vaccine against group B streptococcus |
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| المؤلفون: | Berardi, Alberto, Cassetti, Tiziana, Creti, Roberta, Vocale, Caterina, Ambretti, Simone, Sarti, Mario, Facchinetti, Fabio, Cose, Stephen, Heath, Paul, Le Doare, Kirsty |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Liverpool Repository |
| الوصف: | Background Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis in infants, with long term neurodevelopmental sequelae. GBS may be associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and preterm birth. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) is currently the only way to prevent early-onset disease (presenting at 0 to 6 days of life), although it has no impact on the disease presenting over 6 days of life and its implementation is challenging in resource poor countries. A maternal vaccine against GBS could reduce all GBS manifestations as well as improve pregnancy outcomes, even in low-income countries. Main body The term "PREPARE" designates an international project aimed at developing a maternal vaccination platform to test vaccines against neonatal GBS infections by maternal immunization. It is a non-profit, multi-center, interventional and experimental study (promoted by the St George University of London. [UK]) with the aim of developing a maternal vaccination platform, determining pregnancy outcomes, and defining the extent of GBS infections in children and mothers in Africa. PREPARE also aims to estimate the protective serocorrelates against the main GBS serotypes that cause diseases in Europe and Africa and to conduct two trials on candidate GBS vaccines. PREPARE consists of 6 work packages. In four European countries (Italy, UK, Netherlands, France) the recruitment of cases and controls will start in 2020 and will end in 2022. The Italian PREPARE network includes 41 centers. The Italian network aims to collect: GBS isolates from infants with invasive disease, maternal and neonatal sera (cases); cord sera and GBS strains from colonized mothers whose infants do not develop GBS infection (controls). Short conclusion PREPARE will contribute information on protective serocorrelates against the main GBS serotypes that cause diseases in Europe and Africa. The vaccine that will be tested by the PREPARE study could be an effective strategy to prevent ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3126596/1/The%20Italian%20arm%20of%20the%20PREPARE%20study%20an%20international%20project%20to%20evaluate%20and%20license%20a%20maternal%20vaccine%20against%20group%20B%20str.pdfTest; Berardi, Alberto, Cassetti, Tiziana, Creti, Roberta, Vocale, Caterina, Ambretti, Simone, Sarti, Mario, Facchinetti, Fabio, Cose, Stephen, Heath, Paul and Le Doare, Kirsty (2020) The Italian arm of the PREPARE study: an international project to evaluate and license a maternal vaccine against group B streptococcus. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, 46 (1). 160-. |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13052-020-00923-3 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-020-00923-3Test http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3126596Test/ http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3126596/1/The%20Italian%20arm%20of%20the%20PREPARE%20study%20an%20international%20project%20to%20evaluate%20and%20license%20a%20maternal%20vaccine%20against%20group%20B%20str.pdfTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F725B3F5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13052-020-00923-3 |
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