US College Students Are at Increased Risk for Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease

Publicly available surveillance data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and other sources suggest that college students in the United States are at increased risk for meningococcus serogroup B (MenB) disease. US surveillance data from 2015 to 2017 show that the incidence of invasiv...

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Autores principales: Marshall, Gary S, Dempsey, Amanda F, Srivastava, Amit, Isturiz, Raul E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz024
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description Publicly available surveillance data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and other sources suggest that college students in the United States are at increased risk for meningococcus serogroup B (MenB) disease. US surveillance data from 2015 to 2017 show that the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) was greater among college students than among those not attending college; the average annual incidence of MenB disease was >5-fold higher among college students, and all college IMD outbreaks between 2011 and March 2019 were caused by MenB.
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spelling pubmed-71924012020-05-06 US College Students Are at Increased Risk for Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease Marshall, Gary S Dempsey, Amanda F Srivastava, Amit Isturiz, Raul E J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc Brief Reports Publicly available surveillance data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and other sources suggest that college students in the United States are at increased risk for meningococcus serogroup B (MenB) disease. US surveillance data from 2015 to 2017 show that the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) was greater among college students than among those not attending college; the average annual incidence of MenB disease was >5-fold higher among college students, and all college IMD outbreaks between 2011 and March 2019 were caused by MenB. Oxford University Press 2019-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7192401/ /pubmed/31077326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz024 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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