Prospects for eradication of meningococcal disease

Meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia remain a serious global health threat. This review focuses on the epidemiology of meningococcal disease following the recent implementation of effective vaccines and the potential utility of a vaccine against serogroup B meningococcus.

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Autor principal: Nadel, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2012
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Reviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302036
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spelling pubmed-35123482012-12-14 Prospects for eradication of meningococcal disease Nadel, Simon Arch Dis Child Reviews Meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia remain a serious global health threat. This review focuses on the epidemiology of meningococcal disease following the recent implementation of effective vaccines and the potential utility of a vaccine against serogroup B meningococcus. BMJ Publishing Group 2012-11 2012-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3512348/ /pubmed/22984187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302036 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
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Prospects for eradication of meningococcal disease
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title_short Prospects for eradication of meningococcal disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512348/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302036
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