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Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2007
Neisseria meningitidis is a major world-wide cause of meningitis. N. meningitidis related diseases have become more pronounced in the last decade and changes in meningococcal-associated disease have opened new opportunities for prevention and vaccine development. Although multivalent vaccines have been developed against the N. meningitidis serogroups A,
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Neisseria meningitidis is a major world-wide cause of meningitis. N. meningitidis related diseases have become more pronounced in the last decade and changes in meningococcal-associated disease have opened new opportunities for prevention and vaccine development. Although multivalent vaccines have been developed against the N. meningitidis serogroups A,
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Meningococcal conjugate vaccines
Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 2005Disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis is associated with high mortality rates and significant sequelae. Polysaccharide meningococcal vaccines have been available for > 20 years, and have been used in travellers to control outbreaks, and in some countries for adolescents entering college, although they provide only a short duration of immunity and do
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Meningococcal Vaccines and Vaccine Developments
2003Despite rapid advances in the diagnosis of bacterial infections and the availability of effective antibiotics, meningococcal disease continues to represent a substantial public health problem for most countries (1-4). Disease usually develops rapidly, is notoriously difficult to distinguish from other febrile illnesses, and generally has a high case ...
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2003
The evaluation of meningococcal vaccines in humans is a challenging task. Issues of safety, and benefit to the individual patient and to the community may raise difficult ethical problems. The inherent variability of human responses, the rarity of clinical disease, age-dependence in the immune response, and the role of carriers complicates the ...
P, Farrington, E, Miller
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The evaluation of meningococcal vaccines in humans is a challenging task. Issues of safety, and benefit to the individual patient and to the community may raise difficult ethical problems. The inherent variability of human responses, the rarity of clinical disease, age-dependence in the immune response, and the role of carriers complicates the ...
P, Farrington, E, Miller
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Meningococcal vaccine in travelers
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2007New vaccines to prevent meningococcal disease have been licensed in recent years. It is therefore timely to discuss current vaccine strategies pertinent to international travelers in relation to the changing epidemiology.Serogroup W135 achieved epidemic status in Africa in 2002, and then largely disappeared over a short time period. The year 2006 saw a
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Meningococcal Disease and Vaccines
Pediatric Annals, 2001P, Dull, N, Rosenstein
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Vaccines for prevention of group B meningococcal disease: Not your father's vaccines
Vaccine, 2015Lee Harrison
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