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Meningococcal vaccination counts and public attention: A time-series study from Türkiye [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Meningococcal infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood. In Türkiye, meningococcal vaccines are not included in the national immunization program and are mainly administered through optional, self-funded services. This
Aysun Boğa, Ezgi Nafile Sayman, Nicel Yıldız Silahlı, Timucin Imdadoglu, Elif Serap Esen, Sirin Guven, Ener Çağrı Dinleyici   +6 more
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Risk Factors and Prevalence of Meningococcal Colonisation of Children Attending Kindergarten in Northern Hungary [PDF]

Microorganisms
Neisseria meningitidis is a bacterium that can cause high-mortality invasive infections. Asymptomatic carriage can serve as a source of infection. This study aimed to determine the meningococcal colonisation rate and risk factors for colonisation among ...
Andrea Horváth, Annamária Huber, Judit Sahin-Tóth, Orsolya Dobay   +3 more
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Herpesviruses, as a possible cause complicated course of invasive meningococcal disease (clinical case) [PDF]

Журнал 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, A. A. Vilnits, A. S. Drap, I. A. Ivashchenko   +3 more
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Breakthrough serogroup Y meningococcal disease in a vaccinated patient with myasthenia gravis receiving ravulizumab: a case report [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
We report a case of fulminant invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y in a young, immunocompromised adult with myasthenia gravis receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy including ravulizumab, despite prior ...
Silvija Šoprek Strugar, Paško Petrović, Iva Butić, Branimir Gjurašin, Marko Kutleša   +4 more
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Meningococcal vaccine. From capsular polysaccharides of microbes to proteases

RUDN Journal of Medicine, 2012
Microbial capsular polysaccharides for many years provided a highly practical public health vaccines for preventing meningococcal, pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenza infection, and typhoid fever.
A P Alliluyev, I V Anokhina, L D Rumsh, E E Melnikov, O V Kotelnikova, E A Sitnikova, E J Drozzina, L S Zhigis, E J Yagudayeva, O A Razgulyaeva, V S Zueva, L V Kozlov, A E Avakov   +12 more
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Meningococcal disease in children in Merseyside, England : a 31 year descriptive study [PDF]

, 2011
Meningococcal disease (MCD) is the leading infectious cause of death in early childhood in the United Kingdom, making it a public health priority. MCD most commonly presents as meningococcal meningitis (MM), septicaemia (MS), or as a combination of the ...
Hart, C. Anthony, Marzouk, Omnia, Paize, Fauzia, Taylor-Robinson, David, Makwana, Nick, Carrol, Enitan D., Baines, Paul B., Harris, David, Hackett, Scott J., Riordan, F. Andrew I., Thomson, Alistair P. J., Diggle, Peter J., Stanton, Michelle C.   +12 more
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Insight into Prevention of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae: A Short Review

Vaccines, 2022
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcus) and Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) are important global pathogens which cause the sexually transmitted diseases gonorrhea and meningitis, respectively, as well as sepsis.
Vincenza La Fauci, Daniela Lo Giudice, Raffaele Squeri, Cristina Genovese   +3 more
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Recommendations of the Polish Paediatric Society, the Polish Society of Vaccinology, and the Polish Society of Family Medicine on meningococcal vaccinations in children and adults in Poland

Pediatria Polska, 2022
Invasive meningococcal disease is a dangerous bacterial infection that often leads to death or permanent disability. Immunization is the best strategy to protect individuals against invasive infections caused by Neisseria meningitidis.
Ernest Kuchar, Hanna Czajka, Ewelina Gowin, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Anna Skoczyńska, Leszek Szenborn, August Wrotek, Jacek Wysocki, Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, Jarosław Peregud-Pogorzelski, Teresa Jackowska   +10 more
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Looking beyond meningococcal B with the 4CMenB vaccine: the Neisseria effect

npj Vaccines, 2021
Infections with Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae have different clinical manifestations, but the bacteria share up to 80–90% genome sequence identity.
Yara Ruiz García, Woo-Yun Sohn, Kate L. Seib, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Julio A. Vázquez, Ana Paula S. de Lemos, Kumaran Vadivelu, Mariagrazia Pizza, Rino Rappuoli, Rafik Bekkat-Berkani   +9 more
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MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION: A BRIEF REVIEW AND PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE GENERALIZED FORM OF THE DISEASE IN THREE-MONTH-OLD TWINS

Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Medical Sciences, 2022
Meningococcal infection in the form of sporadic cases or minor group outbreaks, mostly among children, is registered in all countries of the world. The disease has a wide range of clinical manifestations – from an asymptomatic bacterial carriage and ...
Oleksandra Prokopiv, Svitlana Lysheniuk, Lidia Segedii, Halyna Karmazyn   +3 more
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