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Invasive meningococcal disease in children in Jerusalem

Epidemiology and Infection, 2007
SUMMARYNeisseria meningitidisis an important cause of childhood meningitis and septicaemia. Between 1999 and 2005, 133 invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) cases occurred in Jerusalem, 112 (84·2%) of them in children aged 0–14 years. The annual incidence rate in Jerusalem was higher than the national average (2·45±0·6vs.
C, Stein-Zamir, N, Abramson, G, Zentner, H, Shoob, L, Valinsky, C, Block   +5 more
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Expanding prevention of invasive meningococcal disease

Expert Review of Vaccines, 2009
Invasive meningococcal disease due to serogroups A, C, Y and W-135 is a serious, vaccine-preventable, worldwide public-health problem. Despite early treatment and advances in medical care, morbidity and mortality rates have essentially remained unchanged.
Stephen I, Pelton, Gregory P, Gilmet
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Social Behavior and Meningococcal Carriage in British Teenagers

, 2006
Understanding predisposing factors for meningococcal carriage may identify targets for public health interventions. Before mass vaccination with meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine began in autumn 1999, we took pharyngeal swabs from ?14,000 UK ...
MacLennan, J., MacLennan, Jenny, Neal, K., Andrews, Nick, Kafatos, G, Cameron, J. Claire, J. Claire Cameron, Maiden, Martin C J, Kafatos, George, Keith Neal, Cann, Kathy, Evans, M.R., MacLennan, J, Cann, K, Kafatos, G., Cameron, JC, Roberts, Richard, Richard Roberts, Evans, MR, Nick Andrews, Martin C.J. Maiden, James M. Stuart, Evans, Meirion R., Neal, K, David N. Baxter, Maiden, MCJ, Stuart, J.M., Baxter, David N., Roberts, R., Cameron, J.C., Andrews, N., Maiden, M.C.J., Jenny MacLennan, Meirion R. Evans, George Kafatos, Kathy Cann, Andrews, N, Stuart, JM, Cann, K., Roberts, R, Baxter, DN, Stuart, James M., Baxter, D.N., Neal, Keith   +43 more
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Molecular epidemiology of meningococcal disease in Northern Ghana [PDF]

, 2001
Meningococcal disease remains a major public health concern, especially in the African Meningitis Belt where large meningitis epidemics with attack rates of up to 500/100,000 recur every 8-12 years.
Gagneux, Sébastien
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Self Mutilating Behaviour in Severe Meningococcal Infection; An Interesting Association [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Neisseria meningitidis most commonly manifests as asymptomatic colonization in the nasopharynx of healthy adolescents and adults. It may rarely present as invasive disease which may be either bacterial meningitis or meningococcal septicaemia.
Anju Dinkar, Jitendra Singh, Virendra Atam, Krishna Kumar Sahani, Munna Lal Patel   +4 more
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UKMenCar4: A cross-sectional survey of asymptomatic meningococcal carriage amongst UK adolescents at a period of low invasive meningococcal disease incidence [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis, the meningococcus, is a prerequisite for invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a potentially devastating infection that disproportionately afflicts infants and children.
Holly B. Bratcher, Charlene M. C. Rodrigues, Adam Finn, Mandy Wootton, J. Claire Cameron, Andrew Smith, Paul Heath, Shamez Ladhani, Matthew D. Snape, Andrew J. Pollard, Richard Cunningham, Raymond Borrow, Caroline Trotter, Stephen J. Gray, Martin C. J. Maiden, Jenny M. MacLennan   +15 more
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Summary of the NACI Statement on the Use of Bivalent Factor H Binding Protein Meningococcal Serogroup B (MenB-fHBP) Vaccine for the Prevention of Meningococcal B Disease

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2020
Background: Trumenba™, a bivalent, factor-H binding protein meningococcal serogroup B (MenB-fHBP) vaccine was authorized for use in Canada in October 2017 for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis ...
Robyn Harrison, Robert Stirling, Oliver Baclic, Wendy Vaudry   +3 more
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Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in 30 EU countries: Towards a European system?

, 2010
In this era of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), we described and compared surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and PCV policies in 30 European countries to provide guidance for Europe-wide surveillance.
Perrocheau, Anne, Celentano, Lucia Pastore, Stuart, James, de Greeffk, Sabine C, Kissling E, Lévy-Bruhl, Daniel, ECDC Country Experts for Pneumococcal Disease, Celentano LP, de Greeff, Sabine C, Tarragó, David, Stefanoff P, Amato-Gauci A, Kriz, Paula, Heuberger, Sigrid, Amato-Gauci, Andrew, Bruhl DL, Tarragó D, de Greef SC, Kriz P, Hanquet G, Kissling, Esther, ECDC country experts for pneumococcal disease, incl., Vergison A, Hanquet, Germaine, Stefanoff, Pawel, Heuberger S, Vergison, Anne, Bruhl, Daniel Levy, Perrocheau A, de Greeff, Sabine C., Stuart J, Mühlemann, Kathrin, David Tarragó, Andrew Amato-Gauci, Lucia Pastore Celentano, Sabine C. de Greeff, Esther Kissling, Pawel Stefanoff, Paula Kriz, Anne Vergison, Germaine Hanquet, Sigrid Heuberger, James Stuart, Anne Perrocheau, Daniel Levy Bruhl   +44 more
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Current safety issues with quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Invasive meningococcal disease, although rare, can present as sudden, life-threatening disease with high risk of mortality or severe long-term sequelae.
Tanya R. Myers, Michael M. McNeil
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the course of a invasive meningococcal disease in a patient of military age from specific prophylaxis (clinical case)

Журнал инфектологии, 2020
Meningococcal infection is an acute infectious disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis, characterized by a polymorphism of clinical manifestations from meningococcus carriage to invasive forms.
V. V. Sharabkhanov, K. V. Zhdanov, S. M. Zakharenko, N. I. Lvov, K. V. Kozlov, E. N. Koudelka, Yu. I. Lyashenko, K. S. Ivanov, Yu. I. Bulankov, A. N. Kovalenko, M. V. Yaremenko, V. A. Cheprakova, N. A. Kuvshinova   +12 more
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