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Vaccine prevention of meningococcal disease in Africa: Major advances, remaining challenges

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Africa historically has had the highest incidence of meningococcal disease with high endemic rates and periodic epidemics. The meningitis belt, a region of sub-Saharan Africa extending from Senegal to Ethiopia, has experienced large, devastating ...
Mustapha M. Mustapha, Lee H. Harrison
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Seasonal upsurge of pneumococcal meningitis in the Central African Republic [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
A high incidence of bacterial meningitis was observed in the Central African Republic (CAR) from December 2015 to May 2017 in three hospitals in the northwest of the country that are within the African meningitis belt.
Thomas Crellen, V. Bhargavi Rao, Turid Piening, Joke Zeydner, M. Ruby Siddiqui   +4 more
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Characterization of Neuropsychiatric Conditions in United States Resettled Refugees at a Single Academic Center

Annals of Neurology, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 231-235, August 2025.
Neuropsychiatric diseases are common among forcibly displaced persons, and a better understanding is needed to improve screening and treatment efforts. We performed a retrospective cross‐sectional study at a single academic center looking at neuropsychiatric diagnoses of United States resettled refugees presenting for their domestic medical examination.
Noor F. Shaik, Uttara Gadde, Aba Y. Barden‐Maja   +2 more
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The cost-effectiveness of alternative vaccination strategies for polyvalent meningococcal vaccines in Burkina Faso: A transmission dynamic modeling study. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: The introduction of a conjugate vaccine for serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis has dramatically reduced disease in the African meningitis belt.
Cohen, Ted, Colijn, Caroline, Colombini, Anaïs, Kristiansen, Paul A, LaForce, F Marc, Resch, Stephen, Trotter, Caroline, Yaesoubi, Maziar, Yaesoubi, Reza   +8 more
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Cranial ultrasound in neonatal brain infections

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 67, Issue 8, Page 986-1003, August 2025.
Abstract Infection of the neonatal central nervous system (CNS) can cause irreversible brain damage. Cranial ultrasound is an important neuroimaging modality in the neonatal period for detecting brain injury. Several types of organism can cause neonatal CNS infection.
Roosmarijn G. Licht‐van der Stap, Linda S. de Vries, Ana Alarcon, Paul Govaert, Sylke J. Steggerda, EurUS.Brain group, Thais Agut, Roberta Arena, Juan Arnaez, Marco Bartocci, Isabel Benavente‐Fernández, Maria Carmen Bravo, Cabañas Fernando, Nuria Blesa Carreras, Olivier Claris, Jeroen Dudink, Monica Fumagalli, Alfredo Garcia‐Alix, Sandra Horsch, Simón Pedro Lubián‐López, Tobias Mühlbacher, Alessandro Parodi, Adelina Pellicer, Luca Ramenghi, Charles C Roehr, Simone Schwarz, Eva Valverde   +26 more
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Genetic Variation in Neisseria meningitidis Does Not Influence Disease Severity in Meningococcal Meningitis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
Neisseria meningitidis causes sepsis and meningitis in humans. It has been suggested that pathogen genetic variation determines variance in disease severity. Here we report results of a genome-wide association study of 486 N.
Philip H. C. Kremer, John A. Lees, John A. Lees, Bart Ferwerda, Bart Ferwerda, Arie van de Ende, Arie van de Ende, Matthijs C. Brouwer, Stephen D. Bentley, Diederik van de Beek   +9 more
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Risk of transmitting meningococcal infection by transient contact on aircraft and other transport. [PDF]

, 2009
Contact tracing of persons with meningococcal disease who have travelled on aeroplane or other multi-passenger transport is not consistent between countries.
Hellenbrand, W, Krause, G, Rachael, T, Schubert, K, Stuart, JM   +4 more
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Successful African introduction of a new Group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine: Future challenges and next steps

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
The introduction of a new Group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine, MenAfriVacR, has been a important public health success. Group A meningococcal meningitis has disappeared in all countries where the new Men A conjugate vaccine has been used at public ...
F. Marc LaForce, Mamoudou Djingarey, Simonetta Viviani, Marie-Pierre Preziosi   +3 more
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Māori and community news constructions of Meningococcal B: the promotion of a moral obligation to vaccinate [PDF]

, 2007
News media communicate various risks of disease, showcase medical breakthroughs and disseminate texts that both reflect and renegotiate shared cultural understandings of health and illness. Little is known about the role of Māori and community news media
Chamberlain, Kerry, Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree, Hodgetts, Darrin, Karapu, Rolinda, Ngata, Ronald, Nikora, Linda Waimarie   +5 more
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The Procoagulant and Fibrinolytic Balance of Extracellular Vesicles Predicts Mortality in Septic Shock Patients

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Septic shock is characterised by abnormal coagulation activation with defective fibrinolysis, leading to a high mortality rate. Cellular activation triggers the release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) conveying both procoagulant and fibrinolytic activities.
Romaric Lacroix, Coralie Judicone, Karim Harti Souab, Amandine Bonifay, Anderson Loundou, Tarik Bouriche, Sylvie Cointe, Loris Vallier, Evelyne Abdili, Laurent Arnaud, Stéphane Robert, Philippe Poncelet, Charlotte Grosdidier, Pierre Morange, Eva Cochery‐Nouvellon, Sylvie Bouvier, Jean‐Christophe Gris, Jean‐Yves Lefrant, Marc Leone, Jacques Albanese, Françoise Dignat‐George   +20 more
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