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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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Current status and challenges of meningococcal vaccines development in China

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022
Vaccination is the most effective and economical way to prevent meningococcal meningitis. In the past few decades, with widespread use of meningococcal vaccines, the incidence of meningococcal meningitis has dropped significantly. There are some vaccines
Ying-hua XU, Ya-nan LI, Qiang YE
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Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease, Japan, 2013 to 2023. [PDF]

Euro Surveill
Kobayashi M, Kamiya H, Fukusumi M, Takahashi H, Akeda Y, Suzuki M, Sunagawa T.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Association of Use of a Meningococcus Group B Vaccine With Group B Invasive Meningococcal Disease Among Children in Portugal.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance A 4-component meningococcus group B vaccine (4CMenB) is the only vaccine in use to prevent group B invasive meningococcal disease in young children, but no matched controlled studies have evaluated it.
F. Rodrigues, R. Marlow, M. J. Simões, L. Danon, S. Ladhani, A. Finn   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Temporal associations between national outbreaks of meningococcal serogroup W and C disease in the Netherlands and England: an observational cohort study

The Lancet Public Health, 2017
Background: Since 2009, the incidence of meningococcal serogroup W disease has increased rapidly in the UK because of a single strain (the so-called original UK strain) belonging to the hypervirulent sequence type-11 clonal complex (cc11), with a variant
Dr Mirjam J Knol, PhD, Susan J M Hahné, PhD, Jay Lucidarme, PhD, Helen Campbell, MSc, Hester E de Melker, PhD, Stephen J Gray, PhD, Prof Ray Borrow, FRCPath, Shamez N Ladhani, MRCPCH, Mary E Ramsay, FFPHM, Arie van der Ende, PhD   +9 more
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Imaging of disease dynamics during meningococcal sepsis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
Neisseria meningitidis is a human pathogen that causes septicemia and meningitis with high mortality. The disease progression is rapid and much remains unknown about the disease process. The understanding of disease development is crucial for development
Hong Sjölinder, Ann-Beth Jonsson
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SINAVE’s quality: completeness for Meningococcal Disease – Northern Portugal, 2020-2022 [PDF]

Eur J Public Health
Alírio E. Rodrigues‬, F Mouta, M. A. Vieira, Joana Vidal Castro, Adélio Mendes, G Cruz-Alves   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Meningococcal Disease in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Review of Cases Reported Through Active Surveillance in the United States, 2000-2008. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundAlthough human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is an established risk factor for several bacterial infections, the association between HIV infection and meningococcal disease remains unclear.MethodsExpanded chart reviews were completed ...
Clark, Thomas A, Cohn, Amanda C, Farley, Monica M, Hall, H Irene, Harris, Christine M, Harrison, Lee H, Lee, Adria, Li, Jianmin, Lynfield, Ruth, MacNeil, Jessica R, Miller, Lisa, Nichols, Megin, Petit, Susan, Reingold, Arthur, Schaffner, William, Thomas, Ann, Wu, Henry M, Zell, Elizabeth   +17 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2013
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a major public health and continues to cause substantial mortality and morbidity. Serotype C is the most frequent in Brazil. The clinical spectrum of IMD is broad (meningitis, meningococcemia or both) and the clinical evolution may be unpredictable.
Strelow, Vanessa L., Vidal, Jose E.
openaire   +5 more sources

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown on invasive meningococcal disease

BMC Research Notes, 2020
Objective Few data are available on the association between SARS-CoV-2 and secondary bacterial infections. Such an association was described for flu and invasive meningococcal disease (IMD).
M. Taha, A. Deghmane
semanticscholar   +1 more source