Emergency Meningococcal ACWY Vaccination Program for Teenagers to Control Group W Meningococcal Disease, England, 2015–2016 [PDF]
, 2017 During the first 12 months of an emergency meningococcal ACWY vaccination program for teenagers in England, coverage among persons who left school in 2015, the first cohort to be vaccinated, was 36.6%.
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Invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]
Pediatrie pro praxi, 2017 Jan Pavelka, Lukáš Homola
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Immunization Update, January 2009, Vol. 1, no. 10 [PDF]
, 2009 Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public ...
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Rift Valley fever outbreak--Kenya, November 2006-January 2007. [PDF]
, 2007 In mid-December 2006, several unexplained fatalities associated with fever and generalized bleeding were reported to the Kenya Ministry of Health (KMOH) from Garissa District in North Eastern Province (NEP).
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Preventing Meningococcal Disease in US Adolescents and Young Adults Through Vaccination
Infectious Diseases and TherapyIn 2022, experts convened under the name Advancing Strategies to Prevent Meningococcal Disease (ARTEMIS) to gather insights on issues related to invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) and meningococcal vaccination in the US. Discussions regarding successes,
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Evaluation of a temporary vaccination recommendation in response to an outbreak of invasive meningococcal serogroup C disease in men who have sex with men in Berlin, 2013-2014 [PDF]
, 2016 Meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) vaccination of men who have sex with men (MSM) was temporarily recommended to control an outbreak of invasive MenC disease among MSM in Berlin in 2012–2013.
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Invasive meningococcal disease without meningitis: a forgotten diagnosis
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2018 Neisseria meningitidis, a Gram-negative diplococcus, is an uncommon cause of pneumonia. There have been only about 344 cases reported worldwide from 1906 to 2015. To our knowledge, there have been only 3 cases reported in the USA in the past 2 decades. We present a case of a 72-year-old male with a past medical history of severe COPD, obstructive sleep
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Surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland, 2002
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2003 During 2002, 124 cases of invasive meningococcal disease were notified in Queensland. This was similar to the previous year (n=128). Four (3.2%) of the cases died. Trends by age and serogroup were generally similar to previous years and were consistent with the overall patterns of this disease in Australia. However, an apparent increase in serogroup C,
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) presenting with meningitis causes significant mortality and morbidity. Suppurative complications of serogroup B meningococcal sepsis are rare and necessitate urgent multidisciplinary management to mitigate ...
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Development of Multi-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Outbreak Detection of Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]
, 2006 Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of septicemia and meningitis worldwide. Traditional typing methods like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for identifying outbreaks are subjective and time consuming.
Price, Alicia Anne
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