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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
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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
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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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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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Using the tetravalent meningococcal polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine in the prevention of meningococcal disease

open access: yesTherapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2008
Sanford R KimmelUniversity of Toledo College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Toledo, OH, USAAbstract: Invasive meningococcal disease occurs worldwide causing an estimated 50,000–135,000 deaths each year in addition to significant ...
Sanford R Kimmel
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Meningococcal disease in adolescents and young adults: a review of the rationale for prevention through vaccination

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis is characterized by high mortality and morbidity. While IMD incidence peaks in both infants and adolescents/young adults, carriage rates are often highest in the latter age groups ...
Cynthia Burman   +5 more
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Critical appraisal of a quadrivalent CRM197 conjugate vaccine against meningococcal serogroups A, C W-135 and Y (Menveo®) in the context of treatment and prevention of invasive disease

open access: yesInfection and Drug Resistance, 2011
Michael Bröker, Brian Cooper, Lisa M DeTora, Jeffrey J StoddardGlobal Medical Affairs, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Marburg, Germany, and Cambridge, MA, USAAbstract: Worldwide, invasive meningococcal disease affects about 500,000 people ...
Bröker M   +3 more
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Current safety issues with quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines

open access: yesHuman 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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Infectious diseases: meningococcal disease

open access: yesWestern Journal of Medicine, 2000
This article comes from Clinical Evidence (2000;3:350-357), a new resource for clinicians produced jointly by the BMJ Publishing Group and theAmerican College of Physicians—American Society of Internal Medicine.Clinical Evidence is an extensively peer-reviewed publication that summarizes the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Herpesviruses, as a possible cause complicated course of invasive meningococcal disease (clinical case)

open access: yesЖурнал инфектологии, 2016
The article describes the clinical case of meningococcal infections, complicated with the development of reactive arthritis. It highlights possible pathogenetic mechanisms of aseptic inflammation in combined meningococcal and herpesvirus infections.
N. V. Skripchenko   +3 more
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