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An economic analysis of a pneumococcal vaccine programme in people aged over 64 years in a developed country setting. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
BACKGROUND: Polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccination for older adults is being introduced in developed country settings. Evidence of protection by this vaccine against pneumococcal pneumonia, or confirmation that illness and death from bacteraemia are ...
Cutts, Felicity T   +3 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease and travel

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health, 2010
Summary: The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease varies geographically and in time and the risk of acquiring the disease varies regionally, as well as with living conditions and behavior.
Ziad A. Memish   +4 more
doaj  

The development of nations conditions the disease space [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the `disease space' of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases and empirically investigate the effect of economic ...
arxiv  

Meningococcal disease. Polysaccharide meningococcal vaccines. The historical aspects and the current state of vaccine development. Report 2

open access: yesБиопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
The present article describes clinical signs of meningococcal disease. It justifies the necessity of its vaccine prevention. The article provides with the historical data on the evolution of inoculants from corpuscular inactivated vaccines to modern ...
M. V. Abramtseva   +2 more
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Societal costs due to meningococcal disease: a national registry-based study

open access: yesClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2018
Nina Gustafsson,1 Sandra Elkjær Stallknecht,1 Mette Skovdal,2 Peter Bo Poulsen,3 Lars Østergaard4 1Incentive, Holte, Denmark; 2Vaccines, Pfizer Denmark, Ballerup, Denmark; 3Health and Value, Pfizer Denmark, Ballerup, Denmark; 4Department of ...
Gustafsson N   +4 more
doaj  

AMEND study protocol: a case–control study to assess the long-term impact of invasive meningococcal disease in Australian adolescents and young adults

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) primarily causes disease in young children and adolescents and can cause long-term disability. Many countries are considering implementation of meningococcal B and/or meningococcal ACWY vaccines to ...
David Gordon   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Classification and Prediction of Heart Diseases using Machine Learning Algorithms [PDF]

open access: yes
Heart disease is a serious worldwide health issue because it claims the lives of many people who might have been treated if the disease had been identified earlier. The leading cause of death in the world is cardiovascular disease, usually referred to as heart disease.
arxiv   +1 more source

Atypical meningococcal meningitis with rashless presentation: A case report

open access: yesJournal of Acute Disease, 2012
Meningococcal disease is the major health problem in developing world. The clinical presentation is varied, ranging from transient fever and bacteraemia to fulminant disease with death ensuing within hours of the onset of clinical symptoms. The classical
Sunita, Manpreet Singh, Dheeraj Kapoor
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