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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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Risk and protective factors for meningococcal disease in adolescents: matched cohort study [PDF]

, 2006
Objective: To examine biological and social risk factors for meningococcal disease in adolescents. Design: Prospective, population based, matched cohort study with controls matched for age and sex in 1:1 matching.
Booth, C., Booy, R., Coen, P.G., Kaczmarski, E., Klein, N., Peckham, C., Stuart, J.M., Tully, J., Viner, R.M., Zambon, M.   +9 more
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Preventive measures in infancy to reduce under-five mortality: a case-control study in The Gambia.

, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between child mortality and common preventive interventions: vaccination, trained birthing attendants, tetanus toxoid during pregnancy, breastfeeding and vitamin A supplementation. METHODS: Case-control study in
Adegbola, Richard A, Dockerty, John D, Herbison, Peter, Hill, Philip C, Howie, Stephen RC, Jasseh, Momodou, Jeffries, David J, Mulholland, Kim, Rutherford, Merrin E   +8 more
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Genome wide expression profiling reveals suppression of host defence responses during colonisation by Neisseria meningitides but not N. lactamica. [PDF]

, 2011
Both Neisseria meningitidis and the closely related bacterium Neisseria lactamica colonise human nasopharyngeal mucosal surface, but only N. meningitidis invades the bloodstream to cause potentially life-threatening meningitis and septicaemia.
Hibberd, Martin L, Kroll, J Simon, Langford, Paul R, Li, Ming-Shi, Wong, Hazel En En   +4 more
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Meningococci can cause clusters of disease. Specimens from 1,616 patients in Germany obtained over 42 months were typed by serogrouping and sequence typing of PorA and FetA and yielded a highly diverse dataset (Simpson's index 0.963). A retrospective spatiotemporal scan statistic (SaTScan) was applied in an automated fashion to identify clusters for ...
Elias, Johannes, Harmsen, Dag, Claus, Heike, Hellenbrand, Wiebke, Frosch, Matthias, Vogel, Ulrich   +5 more
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Whole genome analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolates from invasive meningococcal disease collected in the Czech Republic over 28 years (1993-2020).

PLoS ONE, 2023
Invasive meningococcal disease belongs among the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world. Several polysaccharide conjugate vaccines against serogroups A, C, W and Y are available and two recombinant peptide vaccines against serogroup B (MenB ...
Michal Honskus, Pavla Krizova, Zuzana Okonji, Martin Musilek, Jana Kozakova   +4 more
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Factors Associated with Immunization Opinion Leadership among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Los Angeles, California [PDF]

, 2018
We sought to identify the characteristics of men who have sex with men (MSM) who are opinion leaders on immunization issues and to identify potential opportunities to leverage their influence for vaccine promotion within MSM communities.
Bednarczyk, Robert, Fenimore, Vincent L., Frew, Paula M., Goldbeck, Cameron, Himmelstein, Rebecca, Holloway, Ian W., Lutz, Chelsea S., Randall, Laura, Tan, Diane, Wu, Elizabeth   +9 more
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Space-Time Cluster Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Clusters are recognized when meningococcal cases of the same phenotypic strain (markers: serogroup, serotype, and subtype) occur in spatial and temporal proximity. The incidence of such clusters was compared to the incidence that would be expected by chance by using space-time nearest-neighbor analysis of 4,887 confirmed invasive meningococcal cases ...
Hoebe, C.J.P.A., de Melker, H., Spanjaard, L., Dankert, J., Nagelkerke, N.J.D.   +4 more
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Mass gatherings: a review of the scope for meningococcal vaccination in the Indian context

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
The risk of meningococcal transmission is increased with crowding and prolonged close proximity between people. There have been numerous invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) outbreaks associated with mass gatherings and other overcrowded situations ...
Anand P Dubey, Rashna Dass Hazarika, Veronique Abitbol, Shafi Kolhapure, Someya Agrawal   +4 more
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Serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis disease epidemiology, seroprevalence, vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity, England, 1998/99 to 2015/16. [PDF]

, 2019
Background In 1999, the United Kingdom (UK) was the first country to introduce meningococcal group C (MenC) conjugate vaccination. This vaccination programme has evolved with further understanding, new vaccines and changing disease epidemiology.
Bazan, Borrow, Campbell, Farrington, Folaranmi, Gray, Hill, Hill, Huson, Ishola, Jolley, Kupferschmidt, Ladhani, Ladhani, Lucidarme, Lucidarme, Maiden, Maslanka, Miglietta, Miller, Neal, Nunes, Osborne, Parent du Chatelet, Ramsay, Simmons, Stoof, Sáfadi, Taha, Trotter, Trotter, Tzeng, Whittaker   +32 more
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