OPTIMUNISE: Submitted publications

  1. Aaby P, Nielsen J, Benn CS, Trape JF. Sex-differential effects of BCG and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine in a rural area with high vaccination coverage: Observational study from Senegal.
  2. Welaga P, Hodgson A, Debpuur C,  Aaby P, Ravn H, Binka F, Azongo D, Oduro A. Measles vaccination and MDG4: Increasing coverage and increasing child survival in Northern Ghana
  3. Welaga P, Hodgson A, Debpuur C,  Aaby P, Ravn H, Binka F, Oduro A. Measles vaccination and MDG4: Reducing out-of-sequence vaccinations and reducing child mortality in Northern Ghana. IJE (in revision)
  4. Andersen A, Fisker AB, Rodrigues A, Martins C, Ravn H, Lund N, Biering-Sørensen S, Benn CS, Aaby P. National immunization campaigns with oral polio vaccine (OPV) reduce the general all-cause mortality rate: An analysis of the effect of campaign-OPV on child mortality within seven randomised trials.
  5. Mogensen SW, Aaby P, Smedman L, Fernandes M, Martins CL, Rodrigues A, Benn CS, Ravn H. The introduction of standard measles vaccination in an urban African community
  6. Aaby P, Ravn H, Fisker AB, Rodrigues A, Benn CS. Is DTP associated with increased female mortality? Testing the TMIH-hypotheses of the non-specific effects of vaccines
  7. Mogensen SW, Rodrigues A, Fernandes M, Benn CS, Ravn H, Aaby P. The introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and oral polio vaccines among infants in an urban African community: A natural experiment
  8. Benn CS, Fisker AB, Whittle HC, Aaby P Hypothesis: Revaccination with live attenuated vaccines confer additional beneficial non-specific effects on overall survival. eBioMedicine (provisionally accepted)
  9. Fisker AB, Biering-Sørensen S, Lund N, Djana Q, Rodrigues A, Martins CL, Benn CS. Contrasting female-male mortality ratios after routine vaccinations with pentavalent vaccine versus measles and yellow fever vaccine in urban Bissau (submitted)
  10. Aaby P, Andersen A, Martins CL, Fisker AB, Rodrigues A, Whittle HC, Benn CS. Does oral polio vaccine have non-specific effects? An analysis of interaction within a randomised controlled trial of early measles vaccine
  11. Aaby P, Andersen A, Ravn H, Khalequzzaman Md.  Co-administration of BCG and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccinations may reduce infant mortality more than the WHO-schedule of BCG first and then DTP.  A re-analysis of demographic surveillance data from rural Bangladesh
  12. Byberg S, Fisker AB, Rodrigues A, Balde I, Enemark U, Aaby P,Benn CS,Griffiths UK . Household experience and costs of seeking measles vaccination in rural Guinea-Bissau
  13. Byberg S, Thysen SM, Rodrigues A, Martins C, Cabral C, Careme M, Aaby P, Benn CS,Fisker AB. A general measles vaccination campaign and subsequent child mortality in urban Guinea-Bissau
  14. Byberg S3, Fisker AB2, Thysen SM, Rodrigues A, Aaby P,Benn CS, Griffiths UK. Cost-effectiveness of providing measles vaccination to all children in Guinea-Bissau
  15. Rieckmann A*, Villumsen M*, Jensen ML, da Silva ZJ, Roth AE, Rodrigues A, Benn CS, Aaby P. Smallpox and BCG vaccination scars and prevalence of HIV-1 in Guinea-Bissau
  16. Benn CS, et. al Campaigns with oral polio vaccine may lower the mortality rate and create unexpected results
  17. Biering-Sørensen S, Aaby P, Lund N, Monteiro I, Jensen K, Eriksen HB, Schaltz-Buchholzer F, Jørgensen ASP, Rodrigues A, Fisker AB, Benn CB. Early BCG and neonatal mortality among low-birth-weight infants: A randomised controlled trial
  18. Byberg S, Østergaard M, Rodrigues A, Martins C, Benn CS, Aaby P, Fisker AB. Risk factors for infant mortality in Guinea-Bissau: Changing patterns with declining mortality?
  19. Frankel H, Byberg S, Bjerregaard-Andersen M, Martins CL, Aaby P, Benn CS, Fisker AB. Different effects of BCG strains – A natural experiment evaluating the impact of the Danish and the Russian BCG strains on morbidity and scar formation in Guinea-Bissau
  20. Andersen A*, Fisker AB*, Rodrigues A, Martins C, Ravn H, Lund N, Biering-Sørensen S, Benn CS, Aaby P. National immunisation campaigns with oral polio vaccine may reduce all-cause mortality: An analysis of 13 years’ of demographic surveillance data from an urban African area
  21. Aaby P, Mogensen SW, Andersen A, Rodrigues A, Benn CS. The introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine to older children in an urban African community: A natural experiment
  1. Kristoffer J Jensen, Christine S Benn, Reinout van Crevel. Unravelling the nature of non-specific effects of vaccines – a challenge for innate immunologists. Seminars in Immunology (special issue).