Vaccines and Vaccination

Overview

Vaccines and vaccination describe both the biological preparations that stimulate protective immunity against specific pathogens and the act of administering them to prevent disease. A vaccine typically contains a weakened or inactivated form of a microorganism, one of its components, or genetic instructions for producing a target antigen, which trains the immune system to recognize and respond rapidly to future exposure without causing the disease itself. Vaccination protects vaccinated individuals and, when coverage is high enough, can reduce transmission within a population, contributing to herd immunity and in some cases the control or elimination of infectious diseases. Effective Immunization programs depend not only on the vaccines themselves but on logistics, delivery systems, and public acceptance, since vaccine hesitancy and barriers to uptake can limit coverage even when safe and effective vaccines are available. Within the scope of the journal Immunization, which addresses vaccines, immune responses, and the delivery of Immunization programs, this page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to vaccination, including studies of immune responses to specific vaccines, the determinants of vaccine uptake and hesitancy, and factors influencing participation in routine childhood Immunization.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 17 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Comparative longitudinal analysis of T lymphocyte subpopulations in calves vaccinated with different doses of BCG-Phipps or with culture filtrate protein extract of Mycobacterium bovis in a natural transmission setting
  2025 · BMC Veterinary Research
• Comparative longitudinal analysis of T lymphocyte subpopulations in calves vaccinated with different doses of BCG-Phipps or with culture filtrate protein extract of Mycobacterium bovis in a natural transmission setting
  2025 · BMC Veterinary Research
• Immunisation coverage and factors associated with incomplete immunisation in children under two during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone
  Myrte Wassenaar et al. · 2024 · BMC Public Health
• Using photovoice methodology to uncover individual-level, health systems, and contextual barriers to uptake of second dose of measles containing vaccine in Western Area Urban, Sierra Leone, 2020
  2023 · Vaccine X
• Routine childhood immunization knowledge: Do fathers who accompany their children for immunization differ from those who accompany their children for circumcision?
  Sadoh Ayebo Evawere et al. · 2023 · Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics
• Using photovoice methodology to uncover individual-level, health systems, and contextual barriers to uptake of second dose of measles containing vaccine in Western Area Urban, Sierra Leone, 2020
  Shibani Kulkarni et al. · 2023 · Vaccine: X
• Childcare Arrangements and Wellbeing of Children of Employed Women in Central Uganda
  2022 · Child Indicators Research
• Cellular and Cytokine Responses in Lymph Node Granulomas of Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG)-Vaccinated and Non-vaccinated Cross-Breed Calves Naturally Infected With Mycobacterium bovis
  2021 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science

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