How to Use intradermal in a Sentence

intradermal

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  • The new intradermal technique requires just a fraction of a vaccine per shot.
    Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The real benefit of an intradermal vaccine is the ability to get more doses from the same vial, Chin-Hong said, which means more could be provided to the rest of the world.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The hope is that intradermal shots, which require one-fifth of a regular dose, can quickly increase supplies of this hard-to-get vaccine.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • This intradermal approach is thought to spur a stronger immune reaction so that less vaccine is needed in each shot.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Providers are less used to intradermal shots and often delivered the vaccine into deeper layers of skin.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Koopmans said the group is planning to test whether intradermal vaccine administration would improve results, once it has been cleared to conduct the study.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s What That Means The research shared last month shows that intradermal and subcutaneous injections were both protective.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 6 June 2023
  • And health professionals do not have a lot of experience giving vaccines via the intradermal route.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Around three-quarters of jurisdictions have moved to the intradermal strategy, and 14 have gone through at least 85 percent of their supply, the threshold the federal government uses to send more to states.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In medicine, the intradermal injection method is most commonly used to do tuberculosis skin tests, Tong said.
    Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The National Institutes of Health funded a study of intradermal injection of Jynneos in 2015.
    Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Techniques that inject vaccine into the skin rather than the underlying muscle, called intradermal shots, offer the same protection using less than half the amount of vaccine.
    Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • An intradermal vaccination strategy allows health care workers to get up to five doses from each vial.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The announcement to stretch doses using the intradermal method comes as many state and local officials have been raising the alarm that there are not currently enough monkeypox vaccines to address the emerging crisis.
    Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Califf indicated last week that the FDA was considering the use of a different injection method which is known as intradermal injection.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The emergency switch to lower-dose intradermal administration has been tested with other vaccines, among them the shots that guard against yellow fever and influenza.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Aragón explained that intradermal shots are delivered into the dermis, the layer of skin just below the surface rather than into the deeper subcutaneous layer as is routinely the case for most vaccines.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Previous studies have shown that an intradermal injection triggers the same immune response as the deeper, subcutaneous shot, which is delivered to the fat layer under the skin.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The state has advised local health departments to follow federal guidance on intradermal injections, which means splitting the vaccine into three to five doses per vial and injecting it under the skin.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Ohio Department of Health is supporting local health departments’ efforts to use the intradermal dosage regimen to ensure that more vaccines are available, Vanderhoff said.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
  • However, the agency cautioned there was a higher risk of local reactions, such as redness, and thickening or discoloration of the skin after intradermal injections.
    Fox News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • It’s long been known that intradermal vaccination, which involves slipping a small needle just under the top layer of the skin, can activate powerful immune responses, even using low doses of vaccine.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The state’s vaccine clinics have held training sessions for nurses because many have no recent experience with intradermal injections.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Those who received the intradermal injection received one fifth of the subcutaneous dose, but produced similar levels of antibodies as those who received the original subcutaneous dose, the EMA said.
    Fox News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The District on Saturday will resume giving second doses of the two-dose monkeypox vaccine regimen by using an intradermal injection technique that will stretch limited supplies of the vaccine.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But giving intradermal shots requires more skill than is needed for more traditional immunizations.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The wheal should be noticeable pretty much immediately after the intradermal injection is given, Dr. Rivard says.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Similar vaccines that can be administered through the skin have been developed, including a dissolving microneedle patch in development in Japan and the short-needle Fluzone intradermal vaccine available in the United States.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 27 June 2017
  • The method, called intradermal injection, has been previously used with other inoculations in short supply.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • It should be noted that in that trial, the fractional doses were administered by intramuscular injections, not intradermal.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Sep. 2022

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