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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 Meningococcal disease is highly transmissible, life-threatening and leaves significant sequelae in survivors. Every year, India, which has a plethora of risk factors for meningococcal disease, reports around 3000 endemic cases.
Anand P. Dubey +4 more
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Meningococcal B Vaccine and Meningococcal Carriage in Adolescents in Australia [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND: The meningococcal group B vaccine 4CMenB is a new, recombinant protein-based vaccine that is licensed to protect against invasive group B meningococcal disease. However, its role in preventing transmission and, therefore, inducing population (herd) protection is uncertain.
Martin C. J. Maiden +17 more
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Meningococcal Vaccines of New Generations – the First 20 Years of Use
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2021 Relevance. Meningococcal vaccine refers to any of the vaccines used to prevent infection by Neisseria meningitidis. Therefore, there is a great scientific and practical interest in the existing and developed menicococcal vaccines.Aims the review is to ...
N. N. Kostyukova, V. A. Bekhalo
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VaccineLies: A Natural Language Resource for Learning to Recognize Misinformation about the COVID-19 and HPV Vaccines [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Billions of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, but many remain hesitant. Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines, propagating on social media, is believed to drive hesitancy towards vaccination. The ability to automatically recognize misinformation targeting vaccines on Twitter depends on the availability of data resources.
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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 +10 more
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Preventing invasive meningococcal disease in early infancy
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 This review considers the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in infants, to examine and critique meningococcal disease prevention in this population through vaccination.
Jessica Presa +3 more
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The Impact of Vaccination Behavior on Disease Spreading Based on Complex Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Vaccination is an effective way to prevent and control the occurrence and epidemic of infectious diseases. However, many factors influence whether the residents decide to get vaccinated or not, such as the efficacy and side effects while individuals hope to obtain immunity through vaccination.
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The important lessons lurking in the history of meningococcal epidemiology
Expert Review of VaccinesIntroduction The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a rare but potentially fatal illness, is typically described as unpredictable and subject to sporadic outbreaks.Areas covered Meningococcal epidemiology and vaccine use during the ...
Ray Borrow, Jamie Findlow
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Current safety issues with quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines
Human 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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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Information Diffusion: An Agent-based Modeling Approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Despite the unprecedented success in the rapid development of several effective vaccines against the Cov-SARS-2, global vaccination rollout efforts suffer from vaccine distribution inequality and vaccine acceptance, leading to insufficient public immunity provided by the vaccine products.
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