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Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease
Adolescents have the highest rates of meningococcal carriage and transmission. Interrupting the adolescent habitat in order to reduce carriage and transmission within adolescents and to other age groups could help to control meningococcal disease at a population level. Compared to immunization strat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26651380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/14760584.2016.1130628 |
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author | Vetter, Volker Baxter, Roger Denizer, Gülhan Sáfadi, Marco A. P. Silfverdal, Sven-Arne Vyse, Andrew Borrow, Ray |
author_facet | Vetter, Volker Baxter, Roger Denizer, Gülhan Sáfadi, Marco A. P. Silfverdal, Sven-Arne Vyse, Andrew Borrow, Ray |
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description | Adolescents have the highest rates of meningococcal carriage and transmission. Interrupting the adolescent habitat in order to reduce carriage and transmission within adolescents and to other age groups could help to control meningococcal disease at a population level. Compared to immunization strategies restricted to young children, a strategy focused on adolescents may have more profound and long-lasting indirect impacts, and may be more cost effective. Despite challenges in reaching this age-group, experience with other vaccines show that high vaccine coverage of adolescents is attainable. |
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spelling | pubmed-48410192016-04-28 Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease Vetter, Volker Baxter, Roger Denizer, Gülhan Sáfadi, Marco A. P. Silfverdal, Sven-Arne Vyse, Andrew Borrow, Ray Expert Rev Vaccines Review Adolescents have the highest rates of meningococcal carriage and transmission. Interrupting the adolescent habitat in order to reduce carriage and transmission within adolescents and to other age groups could help to control meningococcal disease at a population level. Compared to immunization strategies restricted to young children, a strategy focused on adolescents may have more profound and long-lasting indirect impacts, and may be more cost effective. Despite challenges in reaching this age-group, experience with other vaccines show that high vaccine coverage of adolescents is attainable. Taylor & Francis 2016-05-03 2016-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4841019/ /pubmed/26651380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/14760584.2016.1130628 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
spellingShingle | Review Vetter, Volker Baxter, Roger Denizer, Gülhan Sáfadi, Marco A. P. Silfverdal, Sven-Arne Vyse, Andrew Borrow, Ray Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title | Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title_full | Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title_fullStr | Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title_short | Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
title_sort | routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26651380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/14760584.2016.1130628 |
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