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Development of meningococcal vaccines

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A few years after the discovery of Meningococcus by Weichselbaum in 18871 numerous vaccines were described and tested almost everywhere in the world. Davis2 seems to have been the first to attempt active immunization, in 1907, using meningococcal cultures heated to 60 °C. A number of other researchers followed on similar lines: Sophian and Black3; Chalmers and O’Farrel4; Riding and Corkil5; Neujean6; Blanchard7; Saleun and Ceccaldi8, etc.

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  1. Nuffield Laboratories of Comparative Medicine, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK

    A. Voller

  2. Department of Microbiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, New York, USA

    H. Friedman

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Triau, R. (1978). Development of meningococcal vaccines. In: Voller, A., Friedman, H. (eds) New Trends and Developments in Vaccines. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6630-0_18

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