Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Vaccines

Vaccines are biological preparations that induce protective adaptive immunity against a specific pathogen by presenting antigens, derived from weakened or inactivated organisms, subunit proteins, or nucleic-acid platforms such as messenger RNA, to the immune system without causing the disease. They prime B- and T-ce…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 16× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2691-8862 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Vaccines are biological preparations that induce protective adaptive immunity against a specific pathogen by presenting antigens, derived from weakened or inactivated organisms, subunit proteins, or nucleic-acid platforms such as messenger RNA, to the immune system without causing the disease. They prime B- and T-cell responses and immunological memory so that subsequent exposure to the pathogen is met with a rapid, effective defense, reducing incidence, severity, and transmission of infectious disease and, at population scale, contributing to herd immunity. Vaccine science spans antigen design and characterization, immunogenicity and durability, safety and adverse-event surveillance, delivery and immunization-program logistics, and the behavioral dimension of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy. The peer-reviewed research gathered here in the journal's virology and infectious-disease corpus reflects these themes, including COVID-19 vaccine development insights and challenges, characterization of specific vaccine products, modeling of vaccination needs to control transmission, passive-immunity strategies, immunization-clinic models for urban settings, predictors and significance of vaccine hesitancy, rare post-vaccination clinical events, and analyses of financing and governance influencing immunization performance. Together they situate vaccines as a central pillar of infectious-disease prevention and a continuing focus of research into efficacy, safety, and uptake.

Research published in this journal

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

2021

Characterization of the Vaccine Abdala

Pino Marrero KatiaCorresponding author
Holguin's university of medical sciences, Cuba.
Exact topic Current Viruses and Treatment Methodologies doi:10.14302/issn.2691-8862.jvat-21-3999
2020

Vaccine Hesitancy: A significant Challange

AGARWAL ANILCorresponding author
Professor, Department of Community Medicine, GR Medical College, Gwalior
Exact topic Immunization doi:10.14302/issn.2577-137X.ji-19-3002
2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 16 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Vaccines, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Current Viruses and Treatment Methodologies (ISSN 2691-8862).

Journal editorial board
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